Comments on: SB 78 – Disposition of Corpses http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=6055 A Citizen's Guide to Indiana Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:56:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Doug http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=6055&cpage=1#comment-976397 Doug Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:56:53 +0000 http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=6055#comment-976397 That's my take on it. Seems like the kind of thing that should already be covered somehow, but maybe not. I don't think I'd advise a client this way, but as a citizen, I think my inclination would be for the coroner or whoever has control of the body to tell Bill to go pound sand when he asks for the body and take my chances if Bill decided to sue over it. But I guess a law lets lawyers and coroners rest easier. That’s my take on it. Seems like the kind of thing that should already be covered somehow, but maybe not.

I don’t think I’d advise a client this way, but as a citizen, I think my inclination would be for the coroner or whoever has control of the body to tell Bill to go pound sand when he asks for the body and take my chances if Bill decided to sue over it. But I guess a law lets lawyers and coroners rest easier.

]]> By: tim zank http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=6055&cpage=1#comment-976392 tim zank Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:38:57 +0000 http://www.masson.us/blog/?p=6055#comment-976392 So Doug, 'splain this to us non-lawyers..does it mean something like this? Bill has been beating his wife Sue, she files a restraining order, later, she winds up dead , so now Bill isn't allowed to have Sues body cremated or buried, right? Is that about it? And if so, isn't there something on the books that sort of covers this scenario already? I'm not saying it's a bad law, I'm just pointing out that eventually there won't be enough paper to write all the laws on (or enough electronic storage) So Doug, ‘splain this to us non-lawyers..does it mean something like this?
Bill has been beating his wife Sue, she files a restraining order, later, she winds up dead , so now Bill isn’t allowed to have Sues body cremated or buried, right?

Is that about it? And if so, isn’t there something on the books that sort of covers this scenario already?

I’m not saying it’s a bad law, I’m just pointing out that eventually there won’t be enough paper to write all the laws on (or enough electronic storage)

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