Same here - police are notified.
What was terrible in my father in law's case was he was under hospice care and there was a DNR on him.
When he passed away I immediately called Hospice (this was just after midnight). The Hospice nurse said she would be out as soon as she could, but it may be an hour and would I be OK. I assured her I was fine.
Just before she arrived, the police arrived, they asked all kinds of questions - you would think we had murdered my f.i.l. But the nurse arrived and she told them she had no idea why they had come out as it was classified as a hospice death and she had faxed them over the prepared death certificate (or whatever it was she had to send). Apparently their fax was not working, so they came out. Not only that they said the ambulance would be there soon. They were going to try and resuscitate him! The nurse asked them if they were crazy, my f.i.l had been dead over an hour by this time, and there was a DNR on him.
Police officer said that as they hadn't got the fax they were following normal procedures.
Luckily the nurse was able to prevent them trying to resuscitate him.
But, then they had to go through all the medications and make a note of them and the nurse had to dispose of them.
It was kind of surreal, but we had been expecting it, and we had said "goodbye" to him just the day before and we were all prepared for it.
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