If you die from a contagious disease do you have to be cremated? or can there be!


Question: If you die from a contagious disease do you have to be cremated!? or can there be a regualr burial!?
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The dsposal of the dead s controlled by the state for the good of the general publc!.

f you de of contagous dsease (eg TB or pneumona) you may choose any form of dsposal!.

f you de of contagous dsease (eg Aids) you may not choose & only get cremated!.

Undertalers who handled your embalment follows specal procedures!. Yr blood gets dsposed as bo-hazard!. And cannot contanmnate persons property or land!. Specal furnace for that!.

So dont de of ths type of contagon!. Just de & dont suffer others!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I would imagine that regulations vary from one state department of health to another but here's something I found concerning California!.

h) Duties of Undertakers and Others in Cases of Death!. Every undertaker employed to manage the interment of any person who has died of any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease must give immediate notice thereof to the Department of Public Health!. It shall be unlawful for an undertaker to retain, or expose or assist in the detention or exposure of the dead body of any such person unless the same be in a coffin or casket, properly sealed, or to allow any such body to be placed in a coffin or casket unless such body has been thoroughly disinfected and wrapped in a sheet saturated with a one five-hundredth solution of bichloride of mercury, and unless the coffin or casket is of metallic substance and hermetically sealed immediately after the body has been placed therein!.

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the body of any person who has died from an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease from the room in which the death occurred, except for burial or cremation; and the body of the person so dying must be interred or cremated within 24 hours after the time of death; provided, however, that the Department of Public Health may by special permit, good cause appearing therefor, extend such time; but in no case shall such extension be for more than 36 hours from the time of death!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

It probably depends!. If you had the plague, they'd probably not want your body around the living!. I think in general though, once you're dead, no one can catch your disease!. Especially not through a coffin six feet under!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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