Putting a whole new face on embalming
If you happen to be sitting down to lunch with a copy of the Missouri Revised Statutes, you might want to skip over section 333 – especially if lawmakers enact a small change in the definition of embalming.
The change would add some choice wording to what is currently a pretty vanilla definition. The definition would be expanded to underscore that embalming includes “the chemical preparation of a dead human body for disposition.”
It gets better.
The definition would further state: “Practice of embalming includes all activities leading up to and including arterial and cavity embalming, including but not limited to raising of vessels and suturing of incisions.”
Rep. Curt Dougherty, D-Independence, discussed the change during a House committee hearing on Monday. He said the expanded definition is necessary so that it would mirror that of other states.
For lunchtime reading, it might be better to stick with a section such as, oh, 137. (Property tax collection) It helps the chicken fried steak go down easier.
Are you kidding me……. Come back in a couple of years with a VOTING record. Just what we need, another inexperienced wanabe. GET REAL
As a regulated professional I just LOVE changes to the law regulating my profession… when the reason for the change is ‘well everyone else is doing it!’
“If everyone was jumping off a cliff, would you follow them!?!”
Likely they would.
And because ‘no one cares’ changes like this get passed w/o notice.
Clowns…