When a bear or a baboon or honey badger or rogue human has raided your hive the source of hive death is clear, and there will be very little left of the hive.
In terms of working out what to do with a dead beehive, it is best to start with the most dangerous causes and work backward to the least dangerous causes.
Poisons are just nasty chemicals – even if you eat the honey and are fine, you do risk giving yourself long-term problems such as certain cancers and so on.
Knowing what to do with honey from a dead hive is important and now you can decide whether you need to destroy the honey, eat it or make mead!! And of course, if the hive is cleaned up the right way you can put new bees in an old hive.