California Disposition Permit
Why I Need a disposition permit A Permit for Disposition of Human Remains (Disposition Permit / Burial Permit) must be issued for each death at the time of preparation for burial, cremation or transit of the remains. The state basically need to know what is happening...
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Palliative Care vs Hospice Care – Differences
If someone in your family is dying, you may be asked to decide between hospice and palliative care for them. So, how do you decide? What is the difference between the two? Someone you know may have had hospice care, so you pretty much know what it is. It gets...
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California Right to Die Law
California Right to Die Law California’s Governor, Jerry Brown signed The End of Life Option Act (California Right to Die Law)into effect on October 5, 2015. Recent efforts by many groups including the organization Death With Dignity had finally led to the approval...
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Organ Donation – Save a Life
When organ donors die, it is possible for them to save as many as eight lives if their organs are ready to use. In 2014, more than 28,000 transplants saved patients who needed them; thousands died waiting for transplants that could save them - please consider organ...
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Tissue Donation – An Opportunity to Help Others
Tissue donation is a very personal decision. On one hand, you have a person who needs a donation; on the other, the person who is deciding to donate either their tissue or the tissue of a deceased person. Tissue donation can improve the quality of life for some and...
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Dying Without a Will – What Happens?
Each state in the United States has intestate succession laws that decide which assets go to which relative if a person dies without a will. Since most people do not wish the state to have control of what happens after they pass dying without a will is bad, having a...
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Implants & Prosthetics – Recycled
When someone in your family passes, there are so many things to think about – the services, the burial, the legal issues, and it goes on and on. Now that we have implants and artificial parts there are more questions. What are you supposed to do? Can these man-made...
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Rental Caskets – What!
What do you do if you want both a traditional funeral or viewing, but then cremation and scattering of the ashes? If some of the family wishes to have funeral services (which are important to have) and others prefer the scattering of ashes; both are possible without...
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Ash Scattering – Need to Know
Is it your responsibility to scatter a loved one’s cremains (ashes)? If so, there are some things you should know before you start and some decisions that should be made – else you could be sorry!Scattering LocationsWhere are you planning to scatter the cremains? ...
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Why Have Funeral Service ?
When someone we love dies, how do we decide if we should have a funeral service, or not? Taking a look at the reasons to have a funeral may help us decide. The very act of having a ceremony illustrates the respect for the deceased individual. The service aides the...
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Die with Dignity – Not in California – SB-128 Failed
After passing the California Senate 23-15, SB-128 was shelved for 2015 because Democratic lawmakers were afraid doctors would talk poor people into ending their lives. Senators Wolk and Morning, who authored the bill, proposed it as death with dignity. However, those...
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California Right to Die – SB 128
On June 4, 2015 the California Senate passed legislation (SB 128) that would advance a bill allowing people who are terminally ill with less than 6 months to live to receive medication that would end their lives. The bill, which passed 23-14, was modeled after a law...
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