Southern Illinois University
Mortuary Science and Funeral Service
Spring, 2000
COURSE NO., HOURS, AND TITLE: MSFS 340-3
Mortuary Law
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Deals with the statutory laws and practices pertaining to funeral service.
The student will trace the laws that govern the funeral director and the
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, physical impact, collection against
an estate, primary obligor, estate liability, cremation, authorization,
commingling of remains, personal effects, storage and shipping of remains.
Lecture three hours. Prerequisite: IMS 208 and restricted to
major.
PREREQUISITE TO: None
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon satisfactory completion of this course, the student shall be able
to:
1. Identify legal relationship between the funeral director, the dead
human body and surviving family.
2. Recognize the right and duty of disposition of a dead human body.
3. Identify the order of kindred.
4. Recognize and understand legal issues in order to avoid unnecessary
liability.
5. Satisfy the academic requirements for licensure.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
Topics Percentages of
Time
I. Constitutional Law
20%
II. Probate Law
20%
III. State Statutes, Regulations, and Rules
10%
IV. Final Disposition
10%
V. Liability of funeral expenses
10%
VI. Torts involving the Dead Human Body
20%
VII. Mental Anguish
10%
TEXTBOOKS:
Required:
Illinois Funeral Director’s Association. (Annual).
IFDA yearbook. Springfield, IL: IFDA.
Stueve, T.F. (1995). Mortuary Law. Cincinnati,
OH: The Cincinnati Foundation.
LECTURE: MWF 1:00 pm-1:50 PM ASA Room 70
EXAMINATIONS AND QUIZZES:
There will be three hourly exams given during the semester. The
dates of the hourly exams will be given in advance. Make up
exams will only be given with a valid medical excuse, if you know in advance
that will not be able to take an exam on time, make arrangements to take
it early, not late.
Quizzes will be scheduled and unscheduled and will not be made up under
any circumstances.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Assignments will be given during the semester, both in and out of class.
Assignments will only receive full credit if handed in on time.
ATTENDANCE:
Attendance is required for all Mortuary Science classes. Showing
up late to class will be considered an absence. 50 points of your
grade is made up of attendance, so not showing up to class can adversely
affect your final grade. Any student who misses three class
sessions will be referred to the University’s Early Warning System.
Please do not eat, talk, sleep, read the newspaper, speak out in class
unnecessarily, work on any other class assignments or do anything else
to disrupt the class. If you choose to do so you will be dismissed
from class and marked absent.
INSTRUCTOR:
Mr. Anthony Fleege ATFLeege@yahoo.com or Splash@SIU.EDU
Office: ASA 114 453-8883
Office Hours: MTWF 9-10 am
MTWF
11-12 am
And by Appointment
GRADING:
|
Points |
| First Exam |
100 |
| Second Exam |
100 |
| Final Exam |
100 |
| Quizzes |
50 |
| Assignments |
50 |
| Attendance |
50 |
| Total |
450 |
A=90-100%
B=80-89%
C=70-79%
F=69% or below
Changes may be made to this syllabus during the semester, as needed,
at the instructor’s discretion.
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