Michigan Votes Forum

    What exactly would this law do? Is there a large amount of dead bodies not being reported? And if nobody is reporting them, who gets prosecuted for not reporting anything? How are they going to know who it was that didn't report anything? 

 the truth is, they're not going to know. but it's a great way to make felons out of citizens.

 I'm trying to think of reasons for this bill, but keep coming up short...   If someone wasn't involved with a homicide but still didn't report a body, this person could still be charged with obstruction of justice... or is that not a felony?  Why do we need more felons?  Fines must be bigger.

 I saw the answer to this on an episode of "Law and Order" or some other equally vacuous piece of prime time propaganda the other night... a lady's husband dies of natural causes, so she throws him the freezer in order to keep collecting his Social Security and other benefits. It was all she had to live on, yadda...

      So, isn't that embezzling, or extortion, or some other fraudulent deception already covered by laws currently in existence? And wouldn't stashing her husband be evidence to prove the deceptive tactic of receiving unwarranted moneys? My guess is that the Prosecuting Attorney would drop the felony charge for not reporting a dead body in exchange for an admission of the fraud, which would be a felony in and of itself, wouldn't it?