Pacemaker plea
PA Wanganui Embalmers want to be allowed to remove pacemakers from bodies which are to be cremated, their annual conference in Wanganui has decided. Because the devices explode during cremation, they have to be removed from the corpse and the embalmers want to be allowed to do this said the Embalmers’ Assocaition treasurer, Mr Murray Hird, of Wanganui. Only doctors were allowed to remove pacemakers, but the Government was redrafting the
relevant legislation, Mr Hird said. Embalmers were the ideal people to carry out the job because of their training, he said. The association is also pressing to have registration regulations strengthened. “There are several untrained and unqualified embalmers practising in New Zealand and the association wants the situation more tightly controlled,” Mr Hird said.
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