[Legal status of human dead body in the context of corporal phenomenology].
It is pointed out that phenomenological settlements are convergent with human dead body status change which has been made on the basis of Polish law. In the 1969 Criminal Code, in chapter "Crime Against the Liberty of Conscience And Religion", there was an entry concerning the protection of human dead body. The reason was that a dead body used to be placed in a sphere of sacrum. In the new Criminal Code, published in 1997, analogical entries were put in chapter "Crime Against Law And Order". In chapter "Crime Against the Liberty of Conscience And Religion" there is an entry concerning sanctions for disturbing funeral service. It means that in legal consciousness a dead body does not belong to a sacral sphere. A ceremony belongs to that sphere but not the subject of that ceremony--a dead body is just a thing. Perhaps in future a dead body will be legally acknowledged as a subject of legal turn, and it will be marked off and specially protected.
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