Identify requirements and procedure pertaining to cremains, calcination, and burial at sea.
Identification should include
- refrigeration of a body not buried or cremated within 48 hours
- signed cremation authorization
- signed identification
- medical examiner examination
- allowing the scattering of cremains
- in specified private gardens
- on private land
- on certain zoned public land
- with permission, on federal land
- cremation certificate (for burial at sea).
Process/Skill Questions:
- What legal guidelines exist regarding burial at sea?
- What laws and regulations exist in Virginia regarding land burials?
- Why is a signed authorization for cremation before the procedure required?