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<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2646184">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2646184</a>
(Selected extracts from the book.)<br>
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<span class="citation">The Law of Human Remains (Lawyers and
Judges Publishing Company, 2015)</span></p>
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target="new">TANYA D. MARSH</a>, <font size="1" face="Verdana">Wake
Forest Law School</font><br>
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A human cadaver is no longer a person, but neither is it an object
to be easily discarded. As a result of this tenuous legal status,
human remains occupy an uneasy position in U.S. law. Perhaps because
of what anthropologist Ernest Becker called our “universal fear of
death,” the law of human remains occupies a remarkably unexamined
niche of U.S. law.<br>
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The Law of Human Remains is an ambitious effort to collect, organize
and state the legal rules and principles regarding the status,
treatment and disposition of human remains in the United States. The
most recent comprehensive overview of the law was published in 1950
(Percival Jackson's The Law of Cadavers). The Law of Human Remains
builds on that work by creating detailed summaries of each
individual state’s laws and regulations. This unprecedented resource
allows readers to quickly identify the often fascinating differences
that exist between states.<br>
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