Commissioned by the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM), and written for everyone involved in the bereavement industry this authoritative book provides a complete and practical guide to the law of burial and cremation as it currently applies in England and Wales. Content includes: a detailed explanation of the Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977 (LACO); Burial Acts; Cemetery Acts; Cremation Acts; the law as it relates to private cemeteries; exclusive rights of burial; transfer of burial rights; cemetery regulations and byelaws; cremation regulations; registration of deaths; coroner duties; post mortems; exhumation; faith and equality issues; closure of burial grounds; redevelopment of disused burial grounds and associated case-law. Includes reference to related issues of importance to cemetery and crematorium managers including: data protection; occupiers liability (including Covid compliance); tax; income generation and business issues; competition law; town planning; procurement of goods and services and related land-issues. Also contains examples of best practice. Appendices include specimen grants of burial and memorial rights; cemetery byelaws and memorial rights; churchyard closure and a sample business plan.

Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .

Human remains occupy an uneasy position in U.S. law. A human cadaver is no longer a person, but neither is it an object to be easily discarded. What, if anything, must be done with human remains? What cannot be done with human remains? What should be done with human remains? Before we can critique the law of human remains, we must first understand what the law is. In "The Law of Human Remains," Tanya Marsh, a nationally recognized expert in the law of human remains and cemetery law, collects, organizes, and states the legal rules and principles regarding the status, treatment, and disposition of human remains in the United States so that attorneys and courts can more easily discover, understand, use, and ultimately critique and reform the law. Part I establishes an analytical framework for the law of human remains and presents an overview of significant doctrines. Part II provides a state-by-state summary of the common and statutory law examined in Part I. This book is designed