Embalming 1 CH1 Types of Documentation

A form for bodies being shipped to another facility. It describes the condition of the body at the shipping location and requests notification of any problems encountered by the receiving funeral facility.

Attention Funeral Director

Authorizes minimum care when embalming is not requested. It gives the funeral facility permission to perform certain tasks to prepare the body for identification, viewing, or immediate cremation

Authorization for Minimum Care Services

Gives necessary permission when extensive or operative restoration work may be necessary in the preparation of the body

Authorization for Restorative and Cosmetic Care

Used when a funeral facility prepares a body where organs and/or tissues have been donated

Authorization to Prepare Donation Cases for Viewing

Form MUST be completed for EACH deceased human body brough into a funeral or an embalming facility. A copy of the report MUST accompany the body being shipped or transported to another funeral facility

Decedent Care Report

Provides permission for the embalming the body and indemnification of the funeral home

Embalming Authorization

Gives direction for disposition of the dead human body when a green burial (Natural Burial) is requested

Green Funeral Release and Indemnification

Verifies the Identification of a Decedent

Identification of Remains of the Decedent

Authorizes minimum care of the body. It Provides a detailed description of "minimum care" that can be erformed

Minimum Care authorization when Embalming is Declined

Used when the funeral home advises against viewing the body, for example, when the remains have been subject to TRAUMA, FIRE, or DECOMPOSITION, but the family DOES want to view them. -Note that a description of the body is given - this would need to vary depending on the reason why the recommendation was made by the funeral facility not to have the body viewed.

Viewing When NOT Advised Against by the Funeral Home