Posted on 10/20/2003 1:41:15 PM PDT by cyn
The 2003 Florida Statutes
Title XLVI CRIMES
Chapter 872 OFFENSES CONCERNING DEAD BODIES AND GRAVES
872.03 Cremating human bodies; limitation.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to cremate any dead human body prior to the expiration of 48 hours after the death of such human body. (2) Anyone convicted for the violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 21780, 1943; s. 1135, ch. 71-136.
Title XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 406
MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD BODIES
406.11 Examinations, investigations, and autopsies.--
(1) In any of the following circumstances involving the death of a human being, the medical examiner of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found shall determine the cause of death and shall, for that purpose, make or have performed such examinations, investigations, and autopsies as he or she shall deem necessary or as shall be requested by the state attorney: (a) When any person dies in the state: 1. Of criminal violence. 2. By accident. 3. By suicide. 4. Suddenly, when in apparent good health. 5. Unattended by a practicing physician or other recognized practitioner. 6. In any prison or penal institution. 7. In police custody. 8. In any suspicious or unusual circumstance. 9. By criminal abortion. 10. By poison. 11. By disease constituting a threat to public health. 12. By disease, injury, or toxic agent resulting from employment. (b) When a dead body is brought into the state without proper medical certification. (c) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.
(2)(a) The district medical examiner shall have the authority in any case coming under subsection (1) to perform, or have performed, whatever autopsies or laboratory examinations he or she deems necessary and in the public interest to determine the identification of or cause or manner of death of the deceased or to obtain evidence necessary for forensic examination. (b) The Medical Examiners Commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 120, providing for the notification of the next of kin that an investigation by the medical examiner's office is being conducted. A medical examiner may not retain or furnish any body part of the deceased for research or any other purpose which is not in conjunction with a determination of the identification of or cause or manner of death of the deceased or the presence of disease or which is not otherwise authorized by this chapter, part X of chapter 732, or chapter 873, without notification of and approval by the next of kin. (3) The Medical Examiners Commission may adopt rules incorporating by reference parameters or guidelines of practice or standards of conduct relating to examinations, investigations, or autopsies performed by medical examiners. History.--s. 6, ch. 70-232; s. 26, ch. 73-334; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 1, ch. 87-166; s. 29, ch. 97-103; s. 3, ch. 98-253.
Prayers for Terri. May she be tended by angels seen and unseen.
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in chapter 406, you want: 406.11 (1) (c) http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0406/SEC11.HTM&Title=->2000->Ch0406->Section%2011
in chapter 872 you want: 872.03 (1) http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0872/SEC03.HTM&Title=->2000->Ch0872->Section%2003
Terri is not in a coma.
She is not on life support.
She laughs, cries, vocalizes.
Her face brightens for her mother.
She swallows.
”So why don't they let her mother feed her?”
The husband/guardian doesn't allow.
His lawyers don't allow.
The judge & courts do not allow.
Governor Bush does not intervene
The FL legislature does not intervene.
This is the gist of conversations I have had over and over with people. When people know the whole truth about Terri, every decent person "gets it".
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Who is the state attorney we should be barraging with mail so that in the event that she passes away, Michael can't completely cover his tracks?
If *you* had it to do over again?
I would add: She won a malpractice award for $750,000 for rehabilitative treatment; since then, she has received none. If she dies, her husband, who has forbidden treatment, gets the trust fund.
Unless someone decides it'd be better to take a misdemeanor rap then let some evidence come out.
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