Cremation: Legal Steps

1. Prepurchase your arrangements and file the contract with your will.
2. If cremation is chosen, sign an Authorization for Cremation form and file a copy with your will.
3. Inform others of whom your arrangements are with.
4. Make a will stating your directive for cremation, or burial.
5. Choose and appoint a willing executor to handle your will.
6. Make your executor aware of the location of your will and cremation or burial contract.
7. Tell your family or other responsible person about your directive(s).
8. Inform them that your direction is in your will.
9. Have a Power of Attorney signed and ready in case it is needed.
10. Have a living will signed and ready if needed. Give copies to family members and physician.
11. Have a Health Care Power of Attorney signed and ready if needed.
12. Include advance directives in your Health Care Power of Attorney, including "Do not Resuscitate" orders and other medical directives dealing with nutrition, hydration, medication, etc.
    

Nepal rights panel finds burial site of disappeared (Gulf Times)
KATHMANDU: Nepals human rights commission said yesterday it had found what may be a burial or cremation site of civilians who disappeared during the countrys decade-long war against Maoist rebels.

Nepal finds possible burial site of "disappeared" (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters KATHMANDU, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Nepal's human rights commission said on Thursday it had found what may be a burial or cremation site of civilians who disappeared during the country's decade-long war ...

Britons body flown to Indonesia for cremation (Gulf Times)
By Nour Abuzant THE body of a Qatar-based British national was flown to Indonesia on Thursday for cremation as per his wish, two weeks after his death, a diplomatic source said.

Justine R. (nee, Jayne) Longbons (The News-Herald)
Funeral services for Justine R. (Jayne) Longbons, 80, a lifelong Mentor resident, will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, at Brunner Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 8466 Mentor Ave., Mentor

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Eco-friendly burials save green (The Record)
Genevieve Maiberger is excited about her burial. When the time arrives, the retired schoolteacher from Teaneck will be placed in a linen shroud and planted in the earth of a hilltop in a lovely meadow, along with her husband Leo's ashes, which are now on the bedroom dresser.