Predictable death locations (nursing homes, hospitals) seem likely to be prepared with on-site armored crematoriums, security doors, and plenty of well-equipped orderlies.
Since sudden or surprise death is the big threat, look to pay higher taxes for more police and containment teams.
Manslaughter, negligence, or suicide resulting in further zombie-caused havoc will be treated much more seriously. Drunk driving or drug abuse, for example, present a much higher risk to others if a simple crash or overdose explodes from a one-person tragedy to a chain overwhelming a neighborhood.
Rise of surveillance states: People and their vehicles with monitors so nobody dies unnoticed or unlocated. Well, we know the Census will be accurate! Also, universal (perhaps compulsory) health care and behavioral health monitoring...now that one severe depression is a risk to an entire community. You can live without a monitor...on the Reservation.
One imagines various kinds of swords will come back into fashion, and various anti-zombie techniques will be added to school gym classes.
Look for in-person funerals to be replaced by post-cremation memorials and wakes.
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