#funeral-home-misconduct

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California
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 day ago

EXCLUSIVE: Bay Area funeral director gives son's brain to parents who requested his clothing

A San Jose funeral home allegedly handed a grieving father a bag containing his son's brain instead of clothing, prompting a lawsuit.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 weeks ago

Man's decomposing body left in un-cooled mortuary for a month, court hears

High Court enforcement agents, tasked with repossessing the premises due to unpaid rent and debts, had found the bodies of two elderly men. They felt immediate concern at the circumstances in which the bodies were being kept, Ms Bates said. Water was coming in through a leak in the roof of the mortuary room, it was running down the walls. The room was not refrigerated, the temperature within the mortuary room was no different to elsewhere in the premises.
UK news
fromJezebel
1 month ago

County Coroner Who Hoarded 'Rotting Corpses' Ruins Halloween for His Community

In August, investigators found 24 decomposing bodies behind a cardboard door at the funeral home Cotter owns with his brother, Chris. Local12 reported that some of the bodies-which were supposed to be cremated-had been there for at least 15 years. Cotter also "admitted that he may have" given some families some fake cremated remains. The uncertainty is honestly funny.
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