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Bio-One of Des Moines offers discretion, promptness, and compassion—especially in difficult cleaning situations, like suicide. We often partner with family members, victim advocates, first responders, and law enforcement to provide suicide cleanup services in Des Moines and surrounding areas to prevent further trauma and protect those impacted from harmful biohazards. We respectfully clean the impacted area for you:

  • You don’t have to be present
  • We can search for sentimental items if requested
  • No one needs to know we’re there, we drive unmarked vehicles
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I would highly recommend Bio-One Cleanup. I had a home that was in very bad shape and would have taken me months to cleanup. In one day that had everything out of the house and made my job so much easier. Joel and his entire staff were very professional during the job. They always made sure if they found something that may interest me to let me know before they discarded anything. Joel and his crew are excellent!!
Stuart Rexroat
I just had a great experience with this team. I fell on some hard times with constant injuries over the last year and the state of my apartment was really embarrassing. They came in and were just super friendly and professional. They were very discrete with my neighbors and completed the work in half the time they estimated they would need. My apartment looks fantastic and they went above and beyond to make sure I had what I needed.
Kailee Rains
The service and crew were amazing. They did an outstanding job and were so compassionate and kind. Above and beyond. I can’t say enough wonderful things about them.
Heather Neuroth
After a death in our family we needed crime scene clean up services. Bio-One was very helpful, answering my questions and working with me to get us in the schedule asap even though it was Christmas week. The cleaners were very thorough and kind. They came in an unmarked truck so that the neighbors wouldn't know what was going on. Their services were covered by home insurance. If you are ever in this unfortunate situation, I highly recommend using them.
Traci Bradley
Thank you team for your great work today! You all did a fantastic job on my parent's apartment. You were very professional and efficient. My parents and I are extremely impressed with your hard work. Highly recommended!
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PART 5

Coping with a Loved
One’s Suicide

There is no right answer for how you should be feeling following the suicide of someone close to you. Grief is complex, and it’s rare that any two people will experience it in the same way. Just know that whatever you’re feeling is okay.
Your Feelings Are Valid

Some of the most common emotions people report feeling when coping with a loved one’s suicide include:

  • Shock
  • Severe Depression
  • Anger
  • Relief
  • Guilt

Shock

Especially in the early aftermath, it’s common for people to feel numb, disconnected and distracted. This shock may last for a long time.

You may feel a sense of detachment from reality until you are better able to process what happened.

Severe Depression

Depression following a traumatic loss can be almost identical to the symptoms of clinical depression.
There may be a lack of energy and motivation, difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite and overwhelming sadness.
This may ease with time, but in some cases it can mark the onset of an ongoing depressive disorder.

Anger

Our brains often try to find someone to blame to protect us from the impact of a loss.

You may be angry at yourself or another loved one for not noticing or acting sooner, or at whatever systems you believe failed the victim.
You may even feel angry at the deceased person for abandoning you or for upending your life with their decision.

Relief

If the suicide took place after a long and difficult struggle with mental or chronic physical illness, you may feel a sense of relief that it’s over.

You may begin to feel like you’re a bad person for feeling this way, but it’s more common than you think.

This can easily cycle into guilt.
You may begin to convince yourself that you secretly wanted the victim gone.
Feelings of selfishness can also creep in for your relief over not having to care for them anymore.
Human relationships are complicated, as is grief, so try to remember that you are not the first person to ever feel this way.
Relief does not mean that you are happy they’re gone, just that you wish something could have been different while they were still around.

Guilt

Loss can often feel senseless, and so you may fall into a cycle of “if only” to find reason for what happened.
Guilt can also result from any other emotion you may find yourself feeling:
Guilt about being detached when people are relying on you.
Guilt over feeling angry.
Guilt about any moments of happiness you manage to have in the midst of your grief.
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Finding solidarity in the way that you are grieving can make the process feel a lot less lonely.
You may primarily experience one of these feelings, all of them, or something entirely different.
However your grief is manifesting, there is no wrong way to feel at a time like this. More importantly, you are likely not the only one feeling this way.
People tend to mask when they are feeling something they believe to be inappropriate for the situation.
So, if you are feeling confusion, guilt, and/or anger at this tragedy, it’s likely another loved one is struggling with the same feelings.

It may be helpful to talk to others who are experiencing this loss with you.

Some may need more space to procees feelings on their own.
However, others benefit greatly from sharing their feelings and holding space for whatever emotions are brought to the table.

Confronting the Why

Survivors often end up dwelling on trying to understand why their loved one chose to end their life.
It’s very easy to get caught up in replaying the last interactions you had with a person before their suicide to dig out clues that might help make sense of it.
The truth of the matter is suicide is a complicated issue with no singular explanation for why it happens.
However, a framing that may help it to settle a little better in your mind is this:

At the end of all things, your loved one died of an illness.

Most, if not all, victims of suicide were suffering from an acute mental illness.
Mental illness causes the chemicals and neurotransmitters in the brain to malfunction in ways they are unable to control.
It was their illness that caused them to feel the compulsion to end their life.

A huge factor of mental illnesses like Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and others are that they fundamentally distort a person’s perception.

In their book After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief, Psychologists Bob Baugher and Jack Jordan explain:
“Medical research is also demonstrating that major psychiatric disorders involve changes in the functioning of the brain that can severely alter the thinking, mood, and behavior of someone suffering from the disorder…

The illness produces biological changes in the individual that create emotional and physical pain (depression, inability to take pleasure in things, hopelessness, etc.) which contribute to almost all suicides.”
Often, people who suffer with suicidal ideation don’t actually want to die.
Rather, they want the anguish or emptiness that their brain is inflicting on them to stop, and for some, death feels like the only way out.

It may feel like the only thing they can control in a situation that feels fully out of their control.

Mental illness is treatable just as any illness is treatable—but some people still succumb to their illness even with treatment, while others recover and go on to live a full life.
However, just as clarification, although mental illness is treatable–and many times very effectively, there is no cure for mental illness.

Your loved one did not choose to become ill, and they would not have chosen to end their life had their illness not been pushing them to do so.

You do not need to wonder why their friends and family were not enough to keep them around, or why they would want to give up on whatever promising future they may have had.
Illness does not have a sense of any of those things—and in the end, their illness is what ended their life.
Understanding this will not make the loss hurt any less, but it may help to reconcile some of the confusion so you can grieve a little more peacefully.

How to Talk About What Happened

An unfortunate inevitability following a suicide is that you will probably have to tell a lot of people the news about what happened.

If they were not close to the victim, then all they truly need to know is that the person died. People will be curious, but they are not owed your limited emotional energy.

Become comfortable with saying no.

Breaking the News

By this point you’ve likely already gone through the difficult process of informing immediate family members and friends.

It may also fall on you to inform employers, teachers and anyone out of the direct loop of what happened.

These can be emails if you are not feeling up to calling, and the messages can be direct and brief.
What may be more difficult to handle are conversations with members of your extended community.
In the aftermath of any premature death, people outside of the deceased person’s direct social circle will always want to know what happened.
Obituaries often leave out the cause of death, so there will be a lot of questions.
Approach these discussions however you need to.
Many survivors find it helpful to be straightforward with anyone who asks, but you aren’t obligated to be.

Do not feel as though you are being difficult or unpleasant if you need to tell someone you don’t want to discuss it.

You called the right
team for the job.

When police, firefighters, and paramedics leave the scene, there is often a cleanup required. You shouldn’t feel obligated to clean it yourself.

Our Bio-One of Des Moines team will arrive quickly to ensure all biohazards are remediated safely and disposed of in accordance with state and federal laws.

Bio-One of Des Moines Cares

Our Bio-One of Des Moines team is compassionate and understanding. We are experts in biohazard cleaning, and most of all, we treat each situation with the care it deserves. Your goals and needs are critical to our process, and discretion is of upmost importance. Here is what you can expect:

  • We answer calls 24/7 to provide quick, reliable service
  • Professional crews that are efficient and experienced in removing blood and other bodily fluids
  • All OSHA guidelines are followed to the letter.
  • We are mindful of personal effects that are of value to you, and we will treat them with care
  • Once cleaned and disinfected, the area will be left in a safe condition so you can move forward

Your unique circumstances will be handled with care, compassion, and discretion. We’ve experienced it all, from homes, to vehicles, and even businesses. Our priority is helping first and ensuring you can take the next steps in a safe environment.

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    The loss of a loved one by suicide is a deeply painful and traumatizing experience. Often after police, firefighters and paramedics leave the scene, there is a cleanup required and there is no need for family or friends of the loved one to be further traumatized or overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to clean the impacted area. That’s why Bio-One of Des Moines employs certified technicians who not only provide expert, suicide cleanup services but do so with a deep sensibility to the emotional nature of the work that affects grieving relatives and friends. Hiring Bio-One of Des Moines for a suicide cleanup ensures the affected area is safely and thoroughly decontaminated by a professional company. When a home or business has been affected by blood or body fluids, it should be cleaned as quickly as possible.

    Bio-One of Des Moines experts adhere to strict regulations when safely cleaning suicide scenes. Biohazards from bloodborne pathogens are properly and discreetly disinfected, decontaminated and disposed. Once the entire area is cleaned of blood and body fluids, we can help you restore the location to its pre-incident state, with a concerted effort to properly handle any personal possessions that carry sentimental value. Don't ever feel like you need to be the one to clean the impacted area - this can be an emotionally taxing process as well as dangerous if done incorrectly.

    Using science-based protocols, our experts not only contain and disinfect the dangerous biological materials, our teams carry out our work in a caring and private manner. Our professional crews are compassionate and discreet when working with families and clients and are available 24/7. Bio-One of Des Moines provides suicide cleanup services and other remediation services for properties such as residential homes, vehicles, communities, and businesses.