More Things Should Be Treated Like a Dead Body

My brother passed away a few years ago.  I tried unsuccessfully to take title to a ten-year old motorcycle that he owned at the time of his death.  I didn't have paperwork that Fort Bend County deemed to be adequate and the hurdles to even try to produce what they wanted was not worth my time.

In contrast, taking possession of a my Dad's body (through the agent of a funeral home) has been much easier. So far all it has taken is a few signatures. I don't need a notarized document with DNA results proving that he is my Dad.  I don't have to provide a title search that shows that I'm the closest living relative. All that it has taken is my word that I'm his son. It seems that the county coroner's office really wants to get it off of their hands. They said that I could take up to 30 days.  I didn't ask what would happen if I didn't have the body claimed by then.

Hell, I don't even really know if that is my Dad's body they are giving me.  I haven't seen it (I don't want to see it, don't want to see it, don't want to see it!).  I'll send a scan of his drivers license to the funeral home and they will make sure that it is him, but maybe they are in on the conspiracy to give me the wrong body too?

Back to reality and common sense.  He lived where they found the body, and common sense says it is him.

This is not an anti-government post.  There are too many of us living together in a very complicated society.  We need government.  But the bureaucracy could always use a little streamlining and Fort Bend County could just have used a little more common sense when I tried to re-title that worthless old motorcycle . . .