Mortuary Law

  Concentration will be on statutory laws and practices pertaining to funeral service. Students will trace the laws that govern the funeral director and embalmer and their legal responsibilities to the consumer. Knowledge will be gained concerning the legal status of a dead human body, necessities of disposition, methods of disposition, rights and parties undertaking responsibility of disposition, custodial rights of the dead human remains, contract laws, right of disposition, control of the funeral, general rules of priority pertaining to next-of-kin, mental anguish, photographs, confidentiality, negligent acts by the funeral director and/or embalmer, mutilation laws, injury to pallbearers, clergy and staff, collection against an estate, estate liability, cremation, personal effects, storage and shipping of remains.  
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