Suicide in the hotel - Who pays to clean the room?

[godenhea]

Who finances cleaning, disinfection, damaged apartment equipment in the event of suicide in a hotel / motel / airbnb?

Will the family be responsible for the damage?

 

[141592653]

In France this should be covered by insurances (just checked jurisprudence)

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

What country? If in the US, what state?

 

[WornOutLife]

As the comments above said, it depends on the country but generally, the money to cover that comes out from the different insurances every legal and DECENT hotel has.

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

They have insurance for things.

 

[JustLosingMyself]

Insurance.
Dead people don't pay bills

 

[CoalmineCanary]

Leave small note and a tip for compensation for the poor housekeeper services that may find you. It might help them recover from finding your body.

 

[KleinerWolf]

Hopefully some sort of insurance covers it

although as long as my parents don't have a language barrier,
I don't think they will be scammed.

I won't pick one of those Chinese/Indian owned motels,
Chinese business owners are especially likely to be habitual scammers in my experience,
So I'll stay away from that.

 

[WitheringAway]

Leave small note and a tip for compensation for the poor housekeeper services that may find you. It might help them recover from finding your body.

I don't see how money could help them "recover" from finding a body.... I think it's inconsiderate of you to guilt trap the op like that.

 

[KleinerWolf]

I don't see how money could help them "recover" from finding a body.... I think it's inconsiderate of you to guilt trap the op like that.

I reckon leaving a note at the front door
"suicide in XXX room, do not entre!
Inform management and Contact the police immediately "
does the trick just fine.

this should prevent housekeepers finding the actual "crime scene"

 

[CoalmineCanary]

I don't see how money could help them "recover" from finding a body.... I think it's inconsiderate of you to guilt trap the op like that.

Didn't mean to guilt trip anyone here. Merely a formality.

It's a small curtesy.

You leave a mess in a hotel room, you usually leave an extra gratuity for causing more grief than necessary.

But tips are *always* optional. I thought we knew that?

 

[KleinerWolf]

Didn't mean to guilt trip anyone here. Merely a formality.

It's a small curtesy.

You leave a mess in a hotel room, you usually leave an extra gratuity for causing more grief than necessary.

But tips are *always* optional. I thought we knew that?

It won't be the housekeepers who clean it up.

they need special crime scene cleaners to do this kind of job.

 

[CoalmineCanary]

It won't be the housekeepers who clean it up.

they need special crime scene cleaners to do this kind of job.

Ohhhh....

But who discovers the body?

Sorry, hotel was my back-up plan.

 

[KleinerWolf]

Ohhhh....

But who discovers the body?

Sorry, hotel was my back-up plan.

The housekeeper will usually discover the body unless a note is left inside near the front door so that they do not walk inside and get traumatised.

in this case I believe most sane people would wait for the police/ambulance to arrive
(I don't think the police will instruct them to check if someone is dead)

 

[TooConscious]

The police hire special private firms... After they've been through your pockets.

 

[noaccount]

It would be likely traumatic for hotel workers to find a body, even if they don't have to deal with the carnage. It's not guilt tripping to point that out, it's something I hope any of us would take any available steps to most-likely prevent from happening.

 

[AutoTap]

Just a thought might be worth havin a note or something visible the no trauma comes to the cleaning crew. That way they know to call the police and they can deal with it and are more trained for it
Just a thought might be worth havin a note or something visible the no trauma comes to the cleaning crew. That way they know to call the police and they can deal with it

 

[KleinerWolf]

The police hire special private firms... After they've been through your pockets.

I have nothing valuable lol...

It would be likely traumatic for hotel workers to find a body, even if they don't have to deal with the carnage. It's not guilt tripping to point that out, it's something I hope any of us would take any available steps to most-likely prevent from happening.

they should come across it at least once in their career.

Just a thought might be worth havin a note or something visible the no trauma comes to the cleaning crew. That way they know to call the police and they can deal with it and are more trained for it
Just a thought might be worth havin a note or something visible the no trauma comes to the cleaning crew. That way they know to call the police and they can deal with it

They've probably seen all sorts of graphic imo.

I wonder who removes the body.

 

[Gnip]

Routine occurrence for any housekeeper with any significant experience.

At the Motel 6 establishments I worked at which were owned by Accor Hotels in seven states, suicides were an occasional part of the job, and the housekeepers were paid as usual, by their employer.

Suicides, dog poop, kinky sex (Motel 6 was a common venue for porn producers, and we knew when porn was produced in a Motel 6 because of the distinct quilts and room décor common throughout the chain in the late 1990's), wild parties and puke all went with the territory. If a housekeeper couldn't handle it (and some couldn't), then they couldn't continue working there (and many couldn't deal with it).

I did some housekeeping for Motel 6 when I was first hired, until increased sensitivity to the cleaning chemicals started giving me nosebleeds (forever ending my time in the cleaning industry), but for me as a former hospital housekeeping supervisor, cleaning up after a bloody, smelly and shitty corpse was already routine (and many Motel 6 housekeepers I worked with also had experience in health care housekeeping).


The one real difference between dealing with bodies found in motel rooms and bodies in health care settings is of course forensic evidence. The police need to be called and the scene analyzed before the body can be removed. Those rooms would of course be off limits for the day until after the authorities left, then stripped bare prior to sanitizing. Soiled bedding not taken for evidence would be trashed and destroyed rather than cleaned and replaced. (I did see Hazmat garbed government workers dealing with the aftermath a few times.)

Odds are that if you have ever stayed in the room of a building which has stood for any length of time, you are staying in a room where at least someone has died. (And if you want to sleep on sheets which haven't been stained by multiple bloody tampons or the feces of complete strangers, I suggest you bring your own bedding.)


Most traumatized I ever saw any experienced housekeepers is when they'd find a gun in the room. Handcuffs and chains are an object of amusement, bodies are a matter of course, but guns left behind can frighten even the most seasoned of professionals in this field.