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This article discusses the legal rights and obligations related to a corpse. It summarizes that at common law, there is no property right in a dead body, but relatives have a quasi-property right that allows them to control burial and protect the body. The duty to bury a body typically falls to the surviving spouse, but if they waive this right, it passes to other relatives like parents or children. Funeral directors now typically assume control and burial of the body, but the estate of the deceased or thei

Author

Syed Hassan

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