Do hospitals keep the dead bodies?

Yes, hospitals do keep dead bodies but they are kept for time-being and not for forever. In following cases dead bodies are kept in morgue: A. Till the autopsy is done when cause of death is not known. B. Unclaimed dead bodies. These may be eventually handed over to concerned authorities for cremation or used for teaching or research purposes. C. read more

Now bare in mind, that just because a hospital may average 4-7 days of storage time for a body, it does not mean that a body cannot be stored for longer than that. Depending on the facility and the type of technology they employ in their storage systems, they could store a body for several months and still the body will be in good enough condition for a mortuary to offer an open casket service. read more