I understand where your coming from on this, but for me the issue is who does the body belong to?

It cannot belong to the person who is now dead. So it presumably belongs to the next of kin who then make the necessary arrangements. Now of course those arrangements might not be following the wishes of the deceased.

That being said there were already ways around this, you can make a conditional bequest in your will, thus bribing your relatives to carry out your wishes, alternatively you can gift your corpse to someone who will.

Hence some people will donate their corpse to medical science.

So under the previous law, you could have donated your corpse to the organ donor people, and specified that the residue would revert back to your next of kin for burial/cremation/whatever.

So really yet again it wasn't (in my view) an area where the law needed changing, a better understanding of the law was all that was required. As it is, my view is that it's another government interference.
fdm | Homepage | 31.08.06 - 2:17 pm | #