I thought I was going to get a good deal on this thread. I'd buy a face if it was half off, wouldn't you? It would be a great addition to my macabre collection.
Yeh he's dead... so they put a line in anyway, just for the hell of it.
When they take a body from the hospital to the morgue, they'll leave the intubation tube in so that during the autopsy, they can tell whether any airway injuries are from the breathing tube or something else. They remove it before they release the body.