Morticians, desperate to be first inside the mortuary to claim a fresh corpse, have been known to assault security guards keeping them out, and recently there was a notorious case involving a Jane Doe that a funeral firm in Hualien had been holding for two weeks. When relatives finally identified the body they were billed NT $ 150,000 and were told: "Pay up, or the stiff stays!"
有的業者為了進入太平間「搶屍體」，竟對攔阻的警衛大打出手。花蓮市之前則傳出業者「保管」了一具無名屍，當家屬在半個月後前來認屍時，索價十五萬元，甚至揚言：「不給錢，不放行。」