225 ILCS 41/15-60: Determination of life.

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)

Every funeral director licensee or funeral director and embalmer licensee under this Code before proceeding to prepare or embalm a human body to cremate or bury shall determine that life is extinct by ascertaining that:

(a) pulsation has entirely ceased in the radial or other arteries; and

(b) heart or respiratory sounds are not audible with the use of a stethoscope or with the ear applied directly over the heart.