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Wash. Rev. Code § 68.50.110 (2026)

Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction

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Except in cases of dissection provided for in RCW 68.50.100, and where human remains are rightfully carried through or removed from the state for the purpose of burial elsewhere, human remains lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, must be decently buried, undergo cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction within a reasonable time after death.
[ 2019 c 432 s 20; 2005 c 365 s 138; 1987 c 331 s 60; 1909 c 249 s 238; RRS s 2490. Formerly RCW 68.08.110.]

Notes:

Effective date—2019 c 432: See note following RCW 68.05.175.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 2012–2016 · leading case: Newlon v. Alexander, 272 P.3d 903 (Wash. Ct. App. 2012).
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Newlon v. Alexander, 272 P.3d 903 (Wash. Ct. App. 2012). “160(3)(d), A coroner may "hold an inquest upon a body" and may authorize dissection in those cases.”
Braun v. Selig, 376 P.3d 447 (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). “100, and where human remains shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the state for the purpose of burial elsewhere, human remains lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, shall be decently buried, or cremated within a…”
In re the Marriage of Newlon, 167 Wash. App. 195 (Wash. Ct. App. 2012). “RCW 68.50.110. The chapter also gives the decedent’s parents the right to control disposition of remains when the decedent has not made “prearrangement[s].”
In The Matter Of The Reinterment Of The Remains Of Kyril Faenov (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). “100, and where human remains shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the state for the purpose of burial elsewhere, human remains lying within this state, and the remains ofany dissected body, after dissection, shallbe decently buried, orcremated within a reasonable…”
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