The signature is required for legal reasons. To sign up, please take some time to read our privacy statement and consult the Next of Kin legal definition. For more information and to initiate your enrollment in the Body Bequeathal Program, please contact:.
Body Bequeathal Program. Other circumstances such as advanced decomposition may also result in the inability to accept the body at the time of death. To help avoid any surprise or disappointment, family members should be advised as early in the donation process as possible that the final determination on the suitability of a donation will be made after death.
We suggest that the donor and next-of-kin develop alternative plans in the event we are unable to accept the body at the time of death. We cannot accept bodies from which other vital organs brain, heart, lungs, kidney s , liver are removed. The body is prepared for a long-term study that can span 2 years or more. Students who are preparing to enter the health professions will study the bodies in a gross anatomy laboratory.
We are unable to accept a donor for a specific project. Our policy is to use the donors as needed. The majority of our donors are used for studies at the University of Kentucky and its locations in other areas of the state. Occasionally we receive a request from health professionals outside UK by another institution or entity within Kentucky as permitted by the RUAGL for education or research.
If the request is approved, we supply a body with the following assurances that a the body will be kept in an appropriate and secured area, b the study is to be completed within a reasonable time frame, c that a human body is a mandatory requirement of the study, and d following completion of the study, the body must be returned to UK for cremation and disposition of ashes.
A family member, power of attorney, or executor is responsible for handling the filing for social security death benefits. We will complete the SSA and fax it.
Kentucky Mortuary Service, as licensed funeral directors, will begin the process of filing a death certificate by filling out our portion of the death certificate. The death certificate is then sent to the doctor listed on the provisional death report in order for them to complete their portion.
We then verify that all the information is correct and send it to the office of vital statistics of the appropriate state. As of January , the state of Kentucky is providing electronic registration, but this is dependent on the medical doctor registering for the online system.
If the doctor is not registered for the electronic system, the process for a death certificate will be handled via postal mail and can take up to weeks. It has existed at UK since It also has been important to so many individuals and their families who made selfless donations, born of compassion and fueled by a sense of service to others. We apologize to them and want them to know that we are moving quickly to fix what was broken and restore their trust in us.
Specifically, a more than three-month examination Capilouto ordered of the program has resulted in the decision by the president and senior administrators to have the program managed by external third-party professionals. However, even before the comprehensive audit was completed, Capilouto ordered significant management and oversight changes for the program that have been enacted as the transition to a third-party administrator continues over the next few months.
In January, Capilouto wrote to dozens of families after The Herald-Leader identified a backlog in burials of cremated remains. Capilouto apologized to families and said an immediate, comprehensive review would be conducted. Your Life Your Health. Wednesday's Child. Read Today. Program Guide.
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