Legal Regulation Of Funeral Services

To be bom or to die is a natural disdpline of human development; funeral and interment service industry is connected with everyone. Several years ago, related organization has chosen "ten most profiteering industry", funeral and interment service industry has been found in the list in two years continuously. About the sudden huge profits and the development of funeral and interment industry, the reason of our attention is simple, because it touches upon everybody and it is involved in the public interest. Due to the confusion of the regulation in the funeral and interment service industry, many ordinary people cried out "it is too expensive to die", funeral and interment service industry is a particular industry to public interest, we should research it in the method of law and use the law to regulate it in order to advance its development. The article is an exploratory research on the problem, which is law regulation about funeral service industry.First section defines the nature of the monopoly in the funeral and interment service industry, and monopoly in the funeral industry has kinds of abuse. The administrative monopoly in funeral and interment service industry hindered competition, commercial freedom, and the healthy orderly development of the industry seriously; therefore, we need use the method of law to resolve the monopoly problem in the funeral and interment industry to stimulate healthy orderly development of funeral and interment market.Second section refers the current situation and existed problem in our funeral and interment service industry. The funeral and interment industry is connected with common interests as tertiary-industry. The author first expounds the development process of market, and then states the value of our funeral and interment market, and declares the current situation and future prospects, and mainly discusses the existed problem in our funeral and interment market. The funeral and interment service industry is in the period of critical transition in our country, it need be in the orbit of mercerization and standardization to meet the needs of ordinary people after China entered into WTO.Third section introduces the funeral and interment law about U.S.A and Japan so as to attain enlightenment to our funeral service industry. The funeral and interment service industry in U.S.A is much prospered. Japan is strict controls over the affairs of the funeral and interment industry. The advanced legislation experince give us much scholastic space to perfect our law of our funeral and interment market.At last section utilizes advanced overseas experience, connect with our practice, put forward several advise about complete the law regulation of our funeral and interment service industry. Altering existing management system of funeral and interment, and we should change the mode of market operation. We should further perfect and protect the admittance system of our funeral and interment market utilizing outer country experience. We should make perfect job qualification system and educate the elite of funeral and interment market. We should build sound price system of funeral and interment market to protect impartial competition; we could pull the public price system into funeral and interment market so as to hold back unfair price. At last we should complete the relative guild system of funeral and interment market to facilitate the whole development of funeral and interment.