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

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