X-Message-Number: 26879 From: "Jordan Sparks" <> Subject: State of Arizona regulations Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:48:37 -0700 As a member of Alcor for many years, I have to say that I agree with the actions that the State of Arizona is taking to restrict Alcor. I feel very strongly that Alcor needs to be licensed as a cemetery and quit depending on anatomical donations. The laws are very clear in all 50 states that you must be a funeral director or embalmer to handle dead bodies. So the obvious solution is for Alcor to get the proper licenses. Their failure to get licensed as a funeral home/cemetery seems to me to be just plain disregard for the law. It's not difficult to get the licensing, and then Alcor would be in a much better legal position. Look at it objectively for a moment. Does Alcor really fall under the anatomical donations laws? Remember that the typical use of such a category is education or research. For a typical patient, neither is the case. It is much more logical that they fall under the cemetery category which includes any storage of a body for an indefinite time span. In our case they are frozen. For all practical purposes, it is identical to any mausoleum. Jordan Sparks Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26879