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SEATTLE -- Olivia Clark lived for only one hour. Doctors didn't even expect her to survive birth. Now her family has a hard time understanding why the King County Medical Examiner has to review her death and charge $50.
Family charged 'death tax' for baby who lived one hour | KING5.com | Seattle Area Local News
King County now requires a review of every death. The medical examiner instituted the $50 fee for cremations three years ago. This year, it included the fee for burials as well.
"The reason we do that is to make sure no one goes to the crematorium or to their grave without society and the family knowing exactly how their loved one died," says Gareth Johnson, King County Prevention Division Manager.
About 13,000 people die in King County every year. Over the last three years, the medical examiner's office discovered the cause of death in 347 cases were wrong and required further investigation, including two homicides. In half of those deaths, treatment was a contributing factor
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Now it strikes me as inappropriate that counties should be forcing people to pay for an investigation into the cause of death absent some desire on the part of the family, but that is the reason they seem to be giving.
I wonder if this "death tax" applies to abortions?
There's a 'death tax'? Seriously?
Aside from the ridiculousness of that, who in thier right mind would callously enforce it on a human being who lived but for only one hour (aside from bureaucrats who think in the same manner as machines)?
I wonder if this "death tax" applies to abortions?
Legally speaking, a fetus was never alive and therefore doesn't have a death to investigate.
Of course, you knew that already. You were just trying to make the point that...
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hmmm
"By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic
"To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion ... it is plain experimental evidence." The "Father of Modern Genetics" Dr. Jerome Lejeune, Univ. of Descarte, Paris
Legally speaking, a fetus was never alive and therefore doesn't have a death to investigate.
Of course, you knew that already. You were just trying to make the point that...
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hmmm
And a very poignant point it was!
So you're saying that child doesn't deserve to be treated as a person because she wasn't old enough?
See, lots of ways to spin this.
Wanna know what would push me over the edge and cause me to hurt somebody? After I got done burying my hour old baby girl, I get hit with a death tax.
If I were these folks, I would tell them to shove their death tax up their ass and wouldn't pay it.
You seem to have missed a couple of important words. Which is weird, seeing as how they were the first two words.
I'm sure it was!
If only I could figure out WHAT it was...
Given this discussion as already deteriorated beyond the human suffering to the mundane issue of taxes, I will argue as equally dispassionately.
Its not a tax, its a user fee. I thought those that did not like taxes were all for user fees. Without this user fee, the cost is spread amongst all taxpayers.
Given this discussion as already deteriorated beyond the human suffering to the mundane issue of taxes, I will argue as equally dispassionately.
Its not a tax, its a user fee. I thought those that did not like taxes were all for user fees. Without this user fee, the cost is spread amongst all taxpayers.
Come now...you REALLY cant figure out why the question was posed in light of the fact that a mother can choose to have a doctor slaughter her unborn child but that same child can be born with little to no expectation of life (due to natural causes) and they deem it necessary to perform an autopsy for a finding of 'fault'? Really? I mean...ideological differences aside...REALLY?
So you're saying that child doesn't deserve to be treated as a person because she wasn't old enough?
See, lots of ways to spin this.
Given this discussion as already deteriorated beyond the human suffering to the mundane issue of taxes, I will argue as equally dispassionately.
Its not a tax, its a user fee. I thought those that did not like taxes were all for user fees. Without this user fee, the cost is spread amongst all taxpayers.
Legally speaking, a fetus was never alive and therefore doesn't have a death to investigate.
Of course, you knew that already. You were just trying to make the point that...
...
hmmm
Funny how a fee for a required service in a non Red state is a tax, but when it is in a Red state, then it is not..
and today's winner for "most nonsensical post" is ...... ^^^^^^ anyone have a clue what he is trying to say?
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