FUNERAL AND EMBALMING TIMES
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: This forum is free to use by all members. You can post to all of the boards and even add your company and services to the Suppliers and Services Board.
 
  Home Help Search Arcade Gallery Links Staff List Calendar Login Register  

Information on Embalming for the public

Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Information on Embalming for the public  (Read 952 times)
Anubis
Administrator
Full Member
*****
Posts: 173



WWW
« on: »

Attached is a document which gives a guide to embalming.
The issues covered are:
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
IS EMBALMING NECESSARY?
VIEWING THE BODY
THE QUALITY OF EMBALMING
DO YOU HAVE A CHOICE?


Since this document was published there have been a number of developments that would contradict some of the advice.

There is certainly a risk of infection from the deceased to the living and it is interesting that Chesterfield crematorium has a formal infection control policy in place and all of the staff have received infection control training.

In respect of the actual embalming process it may be interesting to hear some views.

Environmentally it would be difficult to claim that the use of embalming fluids has a detrimental effect. It has been suggested that the thermal decomposition of Aardbalm during the cremation process may lead to dioxins going up the stack. This being the case crematoriums, their owners and all local authorities would be less than pleased. There is also a suggestion that it may be necessary, in the future, for the funeral director to declare whether the deceased has been embalmed and what chemical was used. How else can the crematoriums determine what is and what isn't going up the stack and they have a legal obligation under the environmental protection act?

An interesting document all the same.

* Information.pdf (99.77 KB - downloaded 108 times.)
« Last Edit: by Anubis » Report Spam   Report to moderator   Logged

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

John Rotherham
Newbie
*
Posts: 3



WWW
« Reply #1 on: »

The document attached to your posting is taken from the website of Chesterfield Borough Council.

The Chesterfield and District Joint Crematorium Committee (which includes representatives of the Chesterfield Borough Council) is responsible for the administration of the Chesterfield and District Crematorium.  The Joint Crematorium Committee are also members of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management's Charter for the Bereaved.

Each year, the Crematorium undertakes a self-assessment of its performance under the terms of the Charter.  One of the self-assessment questions is: "Is advice on embalming available as a leaflet on request?"  The Institute advises that this information is available from the ICCM website.

The advice contained on our website is taken from the First Edition of the Charter Booklet, published by the ICCM in March 1996.  It appears that this advice was updated in 2003 and that the content relating to embalming is much reduced.  The current version of the Charter Booklet can be viewed at http://www.iccm-uk.com/downloads/Reference%20Charter.doc

Chesterfield Borough Council will be amending the advice on its website to correspond with the most recent ICCM advice.

Regards.

John Rotherham
Bereavement Services Manager
Report Spam   Report to moderator   Logged

John Rotherham
Bereavement Services Manager
Chesterfield and District Crematorium, Chesterfield Road,
Brimington, Chesterfield S43 1AU
Telephone: 01246 345888
Mobile: 07977 131565
Fax: 01246 345889
E-mail: john.rotherham@chesterfield.gov.uk
website: www.chesterfield.gov.uk
Anubis
Administrator
Full Member
*****
Posts: 173



WWW
« Reply #2 on: »

Thanks for this John.
Knowledgeable and well informed as usual.
One of the issues that does interest me is, from an embalming perspective, should crematoriums have knowledge of the embalming fluid that has been used? I realise that the percentages are very very low but certainly no lower than mercury. It may also be the case that in the future that the thermal decomposition properties of each embalming fluid should be a matter of record in order that operators know exactly what is going up the stack. This would be, and should be, a reasonably straightforward issue. I would suggest that results for formaldehyde, pv iodine, phenol and methanol would probably be appropriate but someone may have other ideas.
« Last Edit: by Anubis » Report Spam   Report to moderator   Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Bookmark this site! | Upgrade This Forum
SMF For Free - Create your own Forum
Powered by SMF | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines
Privacy Policy