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Post by elalacran on Feb 28, 2012 18:48:24 GMT -5
So what?
Being in a landfill is no worse than being in a mauseleum. Either way, your molecules are sealed off from life and the cycles of nature for a time.
[We talking about the 9-11 remains that were sent to a landfill which has some persons upset.]
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Post by anonthemoose on Feb 28, 2012 19:54:59 GMT -5
If you have a few acres, and want to be buried on the property, maybe under a tree, is that legal? I don't need more than some canvas or a cardboard box.
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Post by elalacran on Feb 28, 2012 22:02:33 GMT -5
Used to be familiy cemeteries all over the place. You croaked and you'd be buried not far from home., body prepared by family members put in a coffin home made. Now, red tape all over. Gotta have a doc sign a death certificate, in some circumstances a JP needs to make a finding, custody of the corpse has to go to a licensed funeral home, to be buried in a licensed cemetery. Or cremated. Can't pile up brush and do the cremation DIY in the back 40 either; has to be a licensed crematorium.
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Post by anonthemoose on Feb 29, 2012 8:02:53 GMT -5
Yeah, the funeral directors have their own PAC to push for more and more regulation of disposition of bodies. I remember several years back, they tried to push through a law that required that all bodies be embalmed, even if they were going to be cremated.
Just guessing, I'd say that most FDs, like most Texans, identify as GOP. They want government out of their lives and into our deaths.
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Post by elalacran on Feb 29, 2012 10:59:45 GMT -5
If I am not mistaken, you can build or buy your own coffin. For funeral homes to insist on your buying from them is illegal tying of a product to a service. Can you order coffins from Wal-Mart?
My problem with getting a coffin ready is the morbidness of keeping it around until it is, ahem, needed. Can be used for storage of course, or for guests to sleep in. Can put it in the living room and use it for a bench. If your bed is on bricks you can store it under the bed, with blankets and such in it, or firearms. Nice for Halloweens, to prop open with a dummy or live person inside out on the porch.
One with a nice flat top is easier to build and more practical when it comes to other uses.
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Post by lubbockgoper on Feb 29, 2012 20:20:40 GMT -5
Yeah, the funeral directors have their own PAC to push for more and more regulation of disposition of bodies. I remember several years back, they tried to push through a law that required that all bodies be embalmed, even if they were going to be cremated. Just guessing, I'd say that most FDs, like most Texans, identify as GOP. They want government out of their lives and into our deaths. I would imagine most funeral laws come from tree hugging libs. Can't have people out digging holes and disturbing a snail darter or equally important species... |
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Post by elalacran on Feb 29, 2012 20:45:45 GMT -5
I think it comes from yuppies who shrink at the sight of blood and death. From compartmentalization of society. Plus the funeral home PAC.
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Post by anonthemoose on Mar 1, 2012 7:34:09 GMT -5
Yeah, the funeral directors have their own PAC to push for more and more regulation of disposition of bodies. I remember several years back, they tried to push through a law that required that all bodies be embalmed, even if they were going to be cremated. Just guessing, I'd say that most FDs, like most Texans, identify as GOP. They want government out of their lives and into our deaths. I would imagine most funeral laws come from tree hugging libs. Can't have people out digging holes and disturbing a snail darter or equally important species... Like Texas cares about snail darters, or equally important species like poor people. Your argument might hold water in California, but not here. We're famous for not caring about the ecology or people...unless they are pregnant or dead. |
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Post by elalacran on Mar 2, 2012 11:03:58 GMT -5
I think it's a matter of police power and public health issues, plus increasing public distaste for the mechanics of death.
Used to be that everyone was in contact with the dead and dying. Now most of us die in hospitals or nursing homes or under hospice care. Children are not exposed to corpses and the care and disposal of corpses any more.
Imagine a children's book "Uncle Peter Dies" that goes into detail about his snorting and rattling as he kicked the bucket and then into the washing and wrapping of his body and the placing of it into a coffin and the burial ceremony! Would parents buy a book like that for their kids and grandkids? Most would be horrified.
Our lives are so specialized and compartmentalized that all these functions have become professionalized and opted out of our lives. Most of us have never seen a dead person unless they are embalmed and arranged.
Death is a part of life that has been nearly removed from our lives. Professionalized.
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