Funeral Prearrangement: Mitigating the Undertaker's Bargaining Advantage

Sher, Byron D.

doi:10.2307/1227305

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“…71 How the law operates for the economic advantage of the funeral industry, despite the wishes of the next of kin, has been detailed elsewhere. 72 In at least two other situations the interests of the next of kin are not deemed compelling. When a person dies during the course of his employment in circumstances that might lead to the liability of his employer under a workmen's compensation act, the employer or the compensation board has the right to require an autopsy even if the surviving spouse objects.…”

Section: The Ethics Of Heart Transplantationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplying Organs for Transplantation

Dukeminier¹

1970

Michigan Law Review

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The transplantation of organs will be assimilated into ordinary clinical practice ... and there is no need to be philosophical about it. This will come about for the single and sufficient reason that people are so constituted that they would rather be alive than dead.-Sir Peter Medawatjs WIFT advances in organ transplantation are forcing us to think about what was once unthinkable: buying human organs. In the spring of 1968 the following item appeared in the classified columns of a Los Angeles suburban newspaper: NEED A TRANSPLANT? Man will sell any portion of body for financial remuneration to person needing an operation. Write Box 1211-630, Covina. 1

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Section: The Ethics Of Heart Transplantationmentioning

confidence: 99%