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Modern Embalming in Romania: Some Regulations and Restrictions
Modern Embalming in Romania: Some Regulations and Restrictions

Author(s): Silviu Dorin Şchiopu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: corpse care; modern embalming; hospital morgue; death care industry; funeral services;

Summary/Abstract: The legal framework on embalming was updated not long ago by the Technical and Health Rules regarding the funeral services, burial, cremation, transport, exhumation and reburial of human corpses, cemeteries, human crematoriums. Recently, the Infectious risk classification methodology for people deceased with infectious diseases has provided clarification on some situations where embalming is permitted or prohibited. As such, this article aims to explore who can perform the embalming, as well as the situations when the embalming is mandatory, forbidden, impossible or optional.

  • Issue Year: 11/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 165-170
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English