[umgud]

If he didn’t kill her, what law did he break?

[fwdude]

If he didn’t kill her, what law did he break?

In Texas, moving a corpse is a crime. Not a felony, based on the circumstances, but still against the law.

[Gen.Blather]

“If he didn’t kill her, what law did he break?”

My sister in the OSI worked a case where the visiting family of an airman had the family patriarch die while there. (Texas, as I recall.) They went to where the body was and were not stopped or challenged. They had no idea they were doing anything wrong. They loaded the man into the back of a pickup and took him home to lay him out in the family parlor. But along the way they got into a wreck. Nobody was seriously hurt, but there was an extra body...which had been embalmed. Apparently it is illegal to transport a body. But I’ll wager this case was unique. (Timeframe late ‘60’s.)

[dolander2002]

It is a law that you cannot take an un-embalmed body across state lines. If you wish, in Oregon, you can bury your loved one in your back yard without a casket, as long as it is deep enough and you mark the area. I found all this out because I was trying to figure out how to get out of an additional 6 grand to get my mother to her crypt in Oceanside, CA. She was adamant that she did NOT want to be cremated, so I was getting desperate. Sheesh! She died in my home after 5 years of caring for her and they charged 700 just to pick up her body.

She wanted my brother's ashes in her coffin with her, so I placed them in a Coca Cola ice bucket, super-glued it shut, and I thought that was the end of it. When they got her body to the mortuary in CA, they opened it and asked me whose cremains were those. I explained, and they said I couldn't do that. I told them that I had already checked all laws, and there was no reason not to keep them in the coffin. Basically, they wanted and additional 1900.00 to do that! I said no, and one day soon after I got a package from them via UPS. I told my driver what it was, he said to refuse it and it went back to them. Heck, I could do that all year! Bastards finally put brother's ashes in a niche which I did not pay for.