re: #553 MandyManners

The state has firm laws about what you can do with bodies after death. A friend of mine is Zoroastrian and could tell you long tales about it. Zoroastrians believe that bodies need to be laid open to the sky and plucked clean by the birds after death. The US government disagrees.

In addition, the government reserves the right to rummage through your body if it is evidence in a crime. Or to quarantine it and possibly incinerate it if you were carrying particular diseases.

Personally I worry more about what the government wants to do with my body when I’m alive.