Like many parents across America, the Raefs were not given the chance to choose the method of final disposition for the remains of their pregnancy.
Who was responsible for the final disposition?
Re "Alternatives for the Final Disposition" (Personal Health, April 15): Like Jane Brody, I have spent time considering the fate of my remains when I die.
Robert Fells, general counsel for the International Cemetery and Funeral Association in Reston, Va., said that next of kin, not the deceased, are responsible for the final disposition of a family member's remains and that most people would probably balk at such a scheme.
But ecologists have not been able to account for the final disposition of much of it.
After excluding patients without a reported geographic location of injury (n = 247; 8 %) and patients for whom final disposition could not be assessed (n = 128; 4 %), the study population for assessing associations between injury location and mortality included 2794 patients.
As recently as last July Mr. Bramblett and Judge Dean-Walker were still at odds about an appropriate penalty for Mr. Nelson; the final disposition of the case was not immediately clear.
During the conference clinicians arrive at a consensus final disposition for each patient and all pertinent data are recorded (Table 1).
Finally, referral and final disposition were also strong predictors of more than one ED visit in 72 hours.
