Your friendly neighborhood funeral home

[Dave W]

Don't look in the garage 

I wonder how often something like this goes undetected.

[OldManC]

Between stories like that and reports of cemeteries re-selling plots and dumping the previous occupants... I'm afraid I'd be in jail if my parents' bodies were treated that way.

[uwe]

That's a grave misuse of a garage.

[Barklessdog]

You'ze gize herd about da Burr Oak Cemetary in Alsip / Chicago ?

http://www.southtownstar.com/burr-oak/1660270,071209cemeterymain1.article

http://www.southtownstar.com/burr-oak/1660216,071009scheme.article

The scheme to exhume bodies from Burr Oaks cemetery, dump them in shallow mass graves in the Alsip memorial park and resell their plots for cash pocketed by accused ringleader Carolyn Towns unfolded over four years, according to Cook County prosecutors.
Towns was the general manager of the cemetery until March, when she was fired for allegedly stealing money. Keith Nicks was the cemetery's foreman, promoted by Towns five years ago. His brother Terrence Nicks drove a dump truck and Maurice "Bear" Dailey operated a backhoe.
When relatives paid cash for burials, Towns pocketed the money, destroyed paperwork and compensated her crew in overtime she authorized on their paychecks.
The Nicks brothers and Dailey would move two backhoes and a dump truck around a burial site and excavate until they hit a cement liner containing a coffin and corpse. They'd strike the liner with the backhoe's shovel, breaking it, then scoop out the pieces into the dump truck.
Then they dumped the coffins, liner pieces and corpses in a vacant area at the back of the cemetery.
Or they'd remove the liner, dig deeper, place the liner back in the hole and top it with a new one, allowing a second body to be buried on top. The headstones were put back at ground level, though not always in the right places.

It was going on for years and I have no idea on how families will recover their loved ones bodies after being dumped with other bodies.

[Barklessdog]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/07/charges-detail-careless-disposal-of-bodies.html

Crushed  concrete, coffins and skeletal remains hoisted from grave sites at the Burr Oak Cemetery were moved about the property so carelessly that bones would sometimes fall off dump trucks and drop unnoticed into the tall weeds, according to a prosecutors' statement filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

The court document paints a gruesome picture of bodies secretly buried one atop another and graves smashed open and excavated to make room for more, all part of what police say was a scheme to illegally resell cemetery plots.

[nofi]

instant karmas' gonna get you...

[Barklessdog]

Cremation is looking better every day.

My dad's ashes sat in my older brother's closet for several years, waiting for his wish to be buried with my mom's ashes.
I guess he finally came out of the closet.

My favorite cremation joke was from Entwistle who commented on the death of her grandma (?) who died of lung cancer  — he supposedly said after seeing the smoke from the cremation chimney - "she's still smoking" !


Anyway who wants a chance to come back as a flesh eating Zombie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtGWjMgwLmI&feature=related

[Denis]

That's a grave misuse of a garage.

This story was buried until now.

[Dave W]

Their best laid plans ran aground.

[uwe]

No more fumes for the exhumed.

[uwe]

Cemeteries shouldn't be parking lots either.

That said, when in Santiago we visited South America's largest cemetery - over 2 million dead. And it actually is a city of the dead with (allowed) vendors selling flowers, water and snacks and roads (traffic allowed at low speed) throughout the huge cemetery. Funnily, enough, there was nothing disrespectful or callous about it at all, life goes on, even among the dead. Whose graves were still decorated from Christmas. Us northern Europeans are always so uptight about death.

[Hornisse]

That's a grave misuse of a garage.

Of corpse it is.

[Lightyear]

There were some sleezebags a few years back, can't remember where, but they would take the bodies, tell the families that their loved ones where cremated and give them a box or urn full of concrete.  The authorites found dozens of bodies stacked on the property.  There's a spot in Hell for these idiots!

[Psycho Bass Guy]

There were some sleezebags a few years back, can't remember where, but they would take the bodies, tell the families that their loved ones where cremated and give them a box or urn full of concrete.  The authorites found dozens of bodies stacked on the property.  There's a spot in Hell for these idiots!

It was in the Northern Georgia/Southeastern Tennessee area near Chattanooga.

[Denis]

Like my dad, a retired pathologist, said about the deceased, "They are past caring..."