X-Message-Number: 7426
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 08:53:47 -0800
From: Tim Freeman <>
Subject: Re: Preventing autopsies

>     You do not have to state a particular religion or give any evidence 
>of adherence to a specific religion.  Communications we have had with 
>various California M.E.'s and coroners indicate that they do recognize the 
>law and adhere to it (although they are NOT happy about it).  
>
>     Alcor has forms available for these six states...

Mike Perry has a neat version of the form that is designed to be
photoreduced and paperclipped to the back of a driver's license.  It
is in all caps in a giant font; it will take at least two iterations
to photoreduce it to the right size.  Fill it out after photoreducing
and laminate.  (If you fill it out before, reducing makes it
illegible.  Live signatures are more persuasive, anyway.)  I have
heard that metal paperclips on a driver's license are illegal in
California (so you don't demagnetize the strip on the back), but a few
policemen have looked at my driver's license without mentioning the
paperclips, so I recommend using them anyway.  Plastic paperclips I
have seen are not sufficiently flexible to deal with the required
thickness.  (Thanks to Regina Pancake for introducing this idea to
me.)

Hmm, what would it take to get this online so people don't have to
bother me or Mike to get it?  I have the web space; if someone gives
me the data, I'll publish.  If enough people hassle me for a copy and
nobody gives me the data, I'll type in what I have in my wallet and
figure out how to get it to print right.

Tim Freeman


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