The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44379   Message #653645
Posted By: Sorcha
19-Feb-02 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Mickey, of course I would! Didn't you hear me say that burial practices are for the living? I am still among the living and would be livid if I discovered that my father's ashes were not my father.

Actually, I do think that what ever happens to the body is "of little consequence" unless it offends someone or causes a problem.

State law varies, but in Wyoming, at least if you own the land, you can bury whatever you want on it. The only real law in Wyoming is that if a human body remains unburied or uncremated for more than 3 days, it must be embalmed. We found this out before my dad died and he was occasionally helping out a mortician. We also did not have to get any permits or anything to transport my mom to Kansas ourselves to be buried, but she did have to be embalmed. Bodies don't even have to legally be in caskets to transport.