How to Dispose of a Dead Body in Iowa
Cemetery of Chettle parish church ( Johan Doe ) / CC BY-SA 3.0 The Iowa Supreme Court issued an interesting ruling today on the disposition of one's bodily remains. Short summary: Wife dies. Husband and wife were "on a long break" after 43 years of marriage, but had never formally divorced or filed for a legal separation. Wife had given instructions in her Last Will as to where she wanted to be buried, verbally told her family members (10 kids!!) and wrote a letter to her son, that was shared with her sister, the executor and the kids about her final wishes. Husband didn't want wife to be buried in Montana, as she desired and expressed to everyone, so he went ahead and buried her here in Heaven a/k/a Iowa. Royal rumble in the courts ensued. Think you have the right to determine what happens to your body after you have "departed planet Earth"? Unless you take your body with you, guess again. In the Court's ruling, you have no right...