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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7426