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This differ depending on where you live but usually it goes to your next of kin which would be your parents if they are alive. If they are not it goes to the next. So write a will if you want it to go to someone special.

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The state or province would provide the burial or cremation and any property would escheat (pass) to the government.

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If they left no will, the estate will escheat to the state. If they have no property, their burial will be paid for by the state, otherwise the estate will pay for the burial.

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The entire estate goes to the state in which the deceased had resided.

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If there is no family and no will, the government will have the body buried and take whatever assets (if any) the deceased may have, but there will be no funeral service.

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do they keep records

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