Funeral Home = Chop Shop?
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- calcium0
Why would that be amusing?
It's pretty awful to think that another human would treat not so much the dead, but the deceased's families like that. Now all these people have to relive and rethink about what had happened with a loved ones remains.This shit and other crap everyone tries to think is "funny" is usually not.
- harlequino0
I am mortimused.
- version30
respect for the dead? the body is "lifeless", it's decaying flesh like that of your food, put it in the ground and let it be fertilizer
- utopian0
Do you really think when the funeral home decided to chop off the guys legs they were throwing a party? If anything, it was both a poor moral and business decision.
- version30
morals for the dead... that is historically reserved for the elite, now days dying makes you important
- juhls0
"A fired funeral home worker notified the family about a year ago."
- Sounds like (ex-)workplace vengance.rounce
- yeah, wtf!?baseline_shift
- Pupsipu0
It's called being responsible. What were they supposed to do? Get a whole special casket made for a few extra inches? It's enough that people are bothering to make caskets for dead people, that's a lot of resources going into completely unnecessary stuff.
Then the whole graveyard without trees business is pretty irresponsible. So much land wasted just so people can go hang out there with dead people and the lazy funeral home workers don't have to clean up the leaves.
Environment is what really matters in this situation, how can people be so selfish and care about some dead body, but not care about the environment?
LOL
- <version3
- When I am leader, I am plowing up and replanting graveyards and golf courses.harlequino
- I doubt they were taking environmental factors into consideration.calcium
- baseline_shift0
Im an organ donor. Is that sick?
Yeah, people seem to have a sick fascination with what happens to their corpses. Its just meat and bone at that point. I want to be buried under a garden so people can eat my nutrients!
- what's for diinner, hmmm...utopian
- soylent green! mwahahabaseline_shift
- version30
the disgruntled ones always spill the beans on their way out the door, silly clumsy ex employees
- harlequino0
So um...what did they do with the legs? Do they get buried separately? How would you do that, a smaller box?
A custom designed "sidecar" would be pretty neat.- set them off to the side down towards the endversion3
- cremate them, and put shoes on the leg stumpsbaseline_shift
- put them under the armsPupsipu
- mg330
Man, if you want to talk about funeral homes doing something bad, check out what's gone on at a cemetery here in Chicago:
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Shock and disgust remain two days after the horrific discovery at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip that employees at the historic African-American cemetery had dug up several hundred bodies for the purposes of reselling the plots. The disinterred remains were then dumped in a field at the rear of the cemetery. According to the Sun-Times' Mary Mitchell, officials also discovered the casket of Emmett Till, whose murder became a rallying point of the Civil Rights movement, had been moved.The casket was surrounded by garbage and discarded headstones strewn about like litter.
"When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
Cemetery workers had been cooperative and informed law enforcement officials that it was indeed Till's original casket.
"It sure looks like all of the photos I have ever seen," Dart said. "This is absolutely horrible."
Dart and other officials spent yesterday shuttling worried families around the grounds of the cemetery and taking reports from distraught families who suspected their relatives may have been one of the bodies disturbed.
Meanwhile, Dart announced that the four employees charged have been moved to a special section of Cook County Jail to prevent any incidents of harm by other inmates. Speaking to Greg Jarrett on WGN-720 AM this morning, Dart said, "These people need to be put in a special place because there is the strongest possibility of serious injury if that doesn't happen. We jumped on that right away." According to Chicago Breaking News:
Former cemetery manager Carolyn Towns, 49, foreman Keith Nicks, 45, and dump-truck operator Terrence Nicks, 39, all of Chicago, and back-hoe operator Maurice Dailey, 59, of Robbins, were each charged with dismembering a human body, a Class X felony. All face up to 30 years in prison.
Towns' bail was set at $250,000, the others' at $200,000. Towns was placed in the psychiatric wing of Cermak Hospital. "We're concerned for her based on a psychiatric evaluation," said sheriff's office spokesman Steve Patterson.
Dart said this morning the defendants had made statements, but did not go into detail.
According to Dart, officials are still trying to figure out the extent of the financial scheme.
- mg330
This is a huge story locally in Chicago. The people that did this are in protective custody now because they are a HUGE target in the jail they're being held in. I don't know what the totals are at now, but they're suspecting more than 300 bodies.
On the news, they've talked about how in the back lot of the cemetery, bodies and bones were just laid out in the open in piles. So completely f'd up.
- kingsteven0
"In this photo provided by Anne Hines, soul and funk guitarist James Hines is seen with his wife Anne Hines in Jan. 2004 about nine months before he died of skin cancer in Allendale, S.C. Authorities revoked the licenses of a South Carolina funeral home and its director Monday, June 1, 2009, after he admitted one of his employees cut the legs of James Hines a 6- foot-7 man without the family's permission so the corpse would fit in a casket. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Anne Hines)"
- version30
what really matters how we store dispose of dead bodies beyond that of one's own selfish expectations? past the sanitary disease side of the argument though... why does a body need to be in a box 6 feet deep? to keep the corpse from rising again?. to keep the smell contained? no. why respect a field full of dead commoners but build over burial grounds of other cultures?
- agreed. 95% of indigenous peoples of the americas were killed in the 1500s. What did we do with those corpses? Bury em in neat rows?baseline_shift
- bury em in neat rows?baseline_shift
- i think they were called shallow trenchesversion3
- kingsteven0
- they cut this guys legs off?!kingsteven
- yeah, but literally, not figurativelyversion3
- Kiggen0
What does happens, is that they break the legs to fit into the casket.
If you have seen six feet under, you know what they to the dead to preserve them.
- MSTRPLN0
This was found out when the body was dug up?