Body Disposition

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    Deciding what to do with the deceased is one of the most basic decisions in funeral planning.
    Some options are Earth Burial, Entombment, Cremation, Whole Body Donation, Cryonics, and Simple Disposition.


  Embalming

If a funeral home is going to have funeral, then they will most likely insist on having the body embalmed.  The funeral home is mostly concerned with the odor of a dead body during ceremonies held in the funeral home.  Average costs of an embalming is around $400.

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There are two laws require embalming:
1.  If body is shipped by public transportation, plane, train, or whatever.
    - But remember, if you transport a body, you must have a special permit.

2.  If a person died of a disease, and the disease can still live (ie TB, HIV, etc.)


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  Earth Burial

•   This is the most common method of disposition.  The deceased is placed a casket/coffin, and set in a grave.

•   Burial occurs after a service or ceremony, or without any service.


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  Entombment

•   The deceased is placed in  a casket/coffin and laid to rest in an aboveground tomb, or mausoleum.


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  Cremation

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•   This heat process reduces the remains to ashes and particles of bone.

•   The cremated remains, can be buried, stored in a vault kept at home, or scattered on private property (ask legal directors for legal restrictions).

•   A funeral ceremony or memorial service can still take  place, with or without the deceased or remains present.


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  Whole Body Donation

•   If you wish to donate your entire body for medical research, you must make arrangements in advance with a medical school.

•   Be Sure to discuss your decision with your family and have other options in case body donation can't be accepted.

•   It may be possible to have the deceased present at the funeral.


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  Simple Disposition

•   The deceased is taken directly to a cemetery or crematory (Embalming, viewing of the deceased, and casket may not be required.)

•   A memorial service or remembrance service may take place afterward.


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  Cryonics

•   This is when you have doctors freeze your head, or whole body in a deep freeze to hopefully be thawed out in the future when our technology is supposedly improved.

•   Doctors put your body in nitrous oxide, which is around -271 degrees Fahrenheit.

•   They freeze you right when you die.

•   To thaw out after being frozen, they slowly heat up the body.


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