I am not from US. I have heard that US laws don't allow to cremate a man living in Texas, in New York. Can anyone tell me why?
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Sign up to join this communityI am not from US. I have heard that US laws don't allow to cremate a man living in Texas, in New York. Can anyone tell me why?
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If the man is living somewhere, he's probably alive... and cremating a man who is alive is murder and hence illegal
While there are two existing good answers, the better answer is logistics.
There is an existing history of men living in Texas being cremated. The problem is that if they are living in Texas, it is physical impossible to cremate them in New York, so it is a law of Physics not US law, that prevents it.
It is not unusual for various US laws to attempt to alter empirical truths, which is probably the root of the confusion in your question.
Obviously laws will not allow you to cremate a man in New York if he's living in Texas, infact it don't matter where he is, as long as
He's living
Cremating someone like that is infact
Murder
Making it illegal!
I guess it would be discouraged in general to cremate any human being, who is living in some country.
The laws don't allow for impossibilities. If he's living (alive) in Texas, he can't be in New York.
One CAN transport dead bodies and cremate them elsewhere. Show me the law that prevents that. Such action would not always be illogical, let alone impossible. You seem to be defending your position out of personal attachment, not logic. One could draw Venn diagrams and show a set of people who lived in Texas, died in Texas, were transported to New York, and cremated. That set would not be completely within the set of illegal activity nor would it be completely within the set of impossible activity.