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A new trend?
Topic Started: Mar 9 2010, 03:28 PM (124 Views)
brenda
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Lawmaker targets funeral practices in bill

The Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Some Minnesota lawmakers are discussing dead bodies instead of budgets today.
A bill brought by Democratic Rep. Carolyn Laine of Columbia Heights is due for a House committee hearing. The legislation would give family members more power to choose funeral practices for a deceased loved one.
The bill would remove current requirements to embalm a dead body. It would allow families to display a body in their home while preserved on dry ice.
Laine says embalming a body isn't necessary as it would pose no health risks for up to four days after a person has died.
She says the bill will help families who want to have a more natural funeral and avoid the expensive process of embalming.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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brenda
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http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/sessiondaily.asp?storyid=2106

Bill expanding after-death care goes to House floor
published 3/9/2010

Families would have more options in providing home-based, after-death care to loved ones under a bill headed to the House floor.

Rep. Carolyn Laine (DFL-Columbia Heights) sponsors HF3151, which clarifies the rights of next-of-kin to control a dead body, not just the disposition of remains. The bill would allow those listed in Minnesota’s next-of-kin hierarchy to obtain permission to remove a body from a place of death. It would also modify rules for how bodies may be transported and prepared for public viewing.

Attitudes toward birth and death have evolved over the past 35 years, heralded in part by baby boomers, Laine told the House Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee. A growing number of people are becoming more open about death and looking for after-death processes that are interactive and natural, she said.

Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, testified that a dead body does not represent a health risk, despite rumors to the contrary.

A companion, SF2903, sponsored by Sen. Sandy Pappas (DFL-St. Paul), awaits action by the Senate Health, Housing and Family Security Committee.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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dolmansaxlil
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HOLY CARP!!!
A friend of mine in high school drowned in a river. His family was Mennonite, and they believed in doing a natural burial. Pine box, no embalming, no makeup, etc. I support that idea - it should be up to the family. But it took several days to find him in the river, so it was not necessarily what I would have done in that case.
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
brenda
Mar 9 2010, 03:28 PM
Laine says embalming a body isn't necessary as it would pose no health risks for up to four days after a person has died.
She says the bill will help families who want to have a more natural funeral and avoid the expensive process of embalming.
Well, yeah. The whole funeral industry needs a major overhaul.
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kenny
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Google green funerals.

There is a of this lot going on now.
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