Tennessee Funeral Has cremations suspended after Body Mixup, burying a person in the wrong Grave and not doing the proper cremation.
In this situation it appears that another Funeral Lawsuit will be filed.
MEMPHIS, TN – The State Board of Funeral Directors has suspended cremations at High Point Funeral Chapel after a former employee blew the whistle on a mix up that resulted in the cremation of the wrong body.
When Billie Sue Smith died last June, loved ones thought the High Point Funeral Chapel had fulfilled her wish to be cremated.
Eight months later, Smith’s body was found buried under the headstone of a complete stranger as her daughter Katherine McClamrock looked on.
On Tuesday, the State Board of Funeral Directors suspended cremations at High Point Funeral Chapel until a formal hearing is conducted.
While the state investigates, attorney Jeff Rosenblum is prepared to file a civil suit against the funeral home on behalf of Smith’s family. Rosenblum said he thinks he can win with or without the board’s opinion.
via www.wmctv.com
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March 12th, 2010The Funeral Home that cremated the wrong body is to have No more cremations, until there is a hearing on the matter. This is a horrible situation in death care and the funeral business(industry).
This all happened in Tennessee.
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March 12th, 2010Minnesota may pass legislation allowing families to care for their own dead. There is a bill that would allow the public to care for their own dead. This is a step forward for the home funeral movement and provides a lower cost funeral alternative for the general public. As economic trouble in the nation continues more and more folks are returning to lower cost funeral(s), and for some the home funeral.
“Carolyn Laine, DFL-Columbia Heights, is sponsoring a bill that would allow families to wash, dress and transport their dead, keep them on dry ice for several days and to host larger viewings than permitted by current law.
The measure, which has a bipartisan group of 22 co-sponsors, passed the House Health Care and Human Services Policy Tuesday on a voice vote. It next moves on to the full House.
The law( Minnesota) now requires bodies to be quickly embalmed or cremated after death and limits who can view unembalmed bodies.
Recently widowed Heather Halen, of Minneapolis, said her ability to wash and dress her husband continued the intimacy they’d shared during his life. She kept his body at home and invited family members to visit.”via www.startribune.com
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Death, state Rep. Carolyn Laine, said Tuesday is frightening.
“We are always afraid of the unknown,” she told fellow lawmakers. But the fear — and the law — should not prevent families from “reclaiming” the care of their dead loved ones, she said.
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March 11th, 2010On March 8th 2009, The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review a funeral Protest Case involving the Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps. The protests of this group have horrified funeral professionals across the United States.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on the outer limits of free-speech protection for public protests and to rule on whether a dead soldier’s family can sue fringe religious protesters who picketed near their son’s funeral with signs that said, “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
A Maryland jury awarded $10 million in damages to Albert Snyder, whose son Matthew was killed in Iraq in March 2006. He had sued Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., who has traveled the country for 20 years leading controversial protests at funerals for American soldiers.
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March 9th, 2010Recently in Kentucky a Family came to a funeral home to make Funeral Arrangements.
Instead of explaining cremation the Funeral Director took the family out back behind the Funeral Home to the crematory, and showed the Family an actual burning body.
This brought on a lawsuit against Funeral Director|Dale Bryson
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“The Brysons’ lawsuit recounts having met with Pyke after Sellersburg resident Dale Bryson, 50, the former husband of Debra Bryson and the father of Audra Bryson, died at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Louisville. During the meeting, Audra Bryson determined that she could not afford a burial and asked about cremation, according to the suit.
The women claim that Pyke led them and another family member to a crematory behind the funeral home and opened the door of an oven where “a human body was being consumed in flames.” The suit also said Pyke showed them a “grinder” where human remains are crushed and that he picked up human bones and displayed them for the visitors.
The Brysons’ lawsuit recounts having met with Pyke after Sellersburg resident Dale Bryson, 50, the former husband of Debra Bryson and the father of Audra Bryson, died at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Louisville. During the meeting, Audra Bryson determined that she could not afford a burial and asked about cremation, according to the suit.
The women claim that Pyke led them and another family member to a crematory behind the funeral home and opened the door of an oven where “a human body was being consumed in flames.” The suit also said Pyke showed them a “grinder” where human remains are crushed and that he picked up human bones and displayed them for the visitors.”
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