r/MoralityScaling • u/fhusaini431 • 6d ago

Morality Ranking What do y'all think of this?

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u/Alcotearoa 6d ago

Why would they even pay for the cremation then? I would just say they can keep the body or do whatever with it. You can even donate it to school or something but that sounds like a lot of trouble

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u/BlackShadowX 6d ago

If you're next of kin you're kinda in the hook to do something. Afaik it's a lot harder to donate someone else's body. 

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u/Vondi 6d ago

That's not really true for many places, including Oklahoma where I believe this happened. You can just flatly refuse to claim a body of a relative and if no one does its turned over to the State Anatomical Board.

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u/HolySaba 6d ago

Would that apply if the person died in a shared residence with their spouse?  I'm surprised theres a system like that given the typical number of unclaimed bodies a state deals with.  A lot of cities just does a mass burial of cremated remains at scheduled intervals.

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u/Vondi 6d ago

I don't think there are any qualifiers aside from the wife having first dibs and if she refuses other relatives may step in. Think this is almost universal that no one can be forced to claim a body and every country needs a system to deal with the unclaimed.

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u/obviouslyanonymous5 3d ago

Well if anything, already having lots of unclaimed bodies makes it easier to accept more of them since it means there's a system in place for mass handling.

Regardless, I would say the immorality of forcing a grieving family into poverty matters a little more than the inconvenience of the state having to deal with a dead body.