Morgue

For the newspaper archive, see morgue file. For the poetry cycle, see Morgue and Other Poems.

"Mortuary" redirects here. For the type of business that provides interment and funeral services, see Funeral home. For other uses, see Mortuary (disambiguation).

A hospital mortuary and pathology laboratory in Bath, England

Inside view of an abandoned morgue in Deventer, Netherlands

A close-up view of a dead body in the morgue in Charité.

A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, entombment or cremation. In modern times, corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.