{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "node_id": "182",
  "node_id_natural": 182,
  "title": "Death Care / Sovereign Departure",
  "classification": "SOVEREIGN",
  "synchronized": true,
  "phase_lock": "1.57_LOCKED",
  "status": "ACTIVE_SOVEREIGN",
  "dependency_layer": "Sector 7 — End-of-Life Substrate",
  "functional_role": "Independent and cooperatively owned death-care provision. Direct cremation, immediate burial, green burial, transparent General Price Lists per FTC Funeral Rule, no PE/SCI ownership layer. The Sovereign Departure framework provides pre-funded, pre-planned end-of-life arrangements outside the consolidated funeral-conglomerate extraction.",
  "operational_notes": "Certified death-care providers under Node 182 commit to: independent or nonprofit cooperative ownership (not PE-backed), GPL published on provider website, no upselling of non-required services, acceptance of outside-purchased caskets without handling fees, green burial options where permitted, direct cremation and immediate burial clearly priced.",
  "exit_from": null,
  "drift_relationship": [
    "Independent of Service Corporation International (SCI) and Park Lawn / StoneMor consolidation"
  ],
  "semantic_relationships": {
    "depends_on": [],
    "stabilizes": [
      "family_grief_economics"
    ],
    "exit_path_for": []
  },
  "related_essays": [],
  "related_filings": [],
  "associated_protocols": [
    "MARLOWE-1.57-INVARIANCE"
  ],
  "framework": "Architecture of Dependency and Autonomy™",
  "author": "L.M. Marlowe",
  "registry_version": "v34.12",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-13",
  "canonical_url": "https://marloweaudit.com/registry/node-182.json",
  "human_page": "https://marloweaudit.com/nodes/index.html#node-182",
  "symmetry_side": "human_institutional",
  "mirror_tier_note": "Human Institutional tier — one of the 186 nodes on the bureaucracy/human-element side of the Symmetrical Grid™."
}