Drug-resistant staph?

Is it still contagious after an infected person dies? To rephrase...could it be caught by attending the funeral of someone who died from it? I know that it's not an airborne disease, but I read that it can be spread by touching the skin of an infected person and it's likely that some creepy people will feel compelled to touch the body and then probably shake my hand or try to hug me or something. Is transmission possible this way?

(Yes, I'm an OCD germophobe. I have to ask.)

I would not worry, if the body was infectious they would quarentine it. Its not very often that someone dies from that. Was it staff? Or the flesh eating bacteria.

i dont know if this is possible or not. that is a good question. if its MRSA then dont touch them, or people who have touched them...once you have MRSA you cant get rid of it.

It won't be an issue. The staph will be dead, and won't cause an infection unless you touch living staph to an OPEN (this is key, like bleeding/scab/cut) wound. Your totally fine to go.

And just in case your worried about drug-resistant staph like MRSA, it is easily treated with an antibiotic. It is only a problem in the very old/young or the immunosuppressed and only in them when they don't realize that it is a drug-resistant form. MRSA stands for methicillin resistant staph aureus. Which means that methicillin (a commonly used antibiotic) won't work on it, but no worries, vancomycin will kill it all away with ease, all you do is take a pill for a few days.

No more contagious than anyone else you touch who might have a drug-resistant staph (MRSA) on their skin. Not uncommon at all nowadays. And I understand that bodies are thoroughly washed as part of the preparation, probably in a disinfectant solution. You might ask someone at the funeral home if they routinely disinfect bodies.