Shaquile O’Neal has paid for a Little Girl’s Funeral. The Girl was murdered and after being sold into child prostitution.According to Fox News:
Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl because he was moved by the tragic story of her kidnapping and murder.
“I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye,” O’Neal told The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player got in touch with the family to see what he could do to help,
There is a little known Cemetery cost that can affect your funeral cost in hard times. It is cemetery maintenance. Whenever purchasing a funeral with a burial it is important to inquire about Cemetery Maintenance. This can help you come in under the average cost of a funeral.
This is true for a rural, metropolitan,religious or private cemetery. With hard economic times cemetery maintenance at many cemetery sites has gone by the wayside.
If you plan to visit the grave often some cemetery grave site owners have found themselves performing maintenance around their loved ones grave site themselves.
Funeral Industry|Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy.
A high tech graveyard has been developed in Japan. Now the grave yard happens to be in a vault in a high rise. You visit the grave by having a robot retrieve the urn, after that the urn and the ashes are viewed in a viewing room.
Japan has introduced high tech graves
“It is a problem faced by everyone in the end or by their relatives left behind – finding a place to spend eternity.
And in Japan, a crowded mountainous country with a fast-ageing society, there is a shortage of final resting places, especially in the big cities.
Burial plots in Tokyo can cost more than $100,000 (£63,318), so some are turning to a cheaper hi-tech solution – multi-storey graveyards…..
With this kind of system we can store a lot of remains so you don’t have to visit a graveyard far away-
Ryutoku Ohara”
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This is how you come in under the average cost of a Funeral in Japan. In Japan Cremation is required by law.
Large Funeral Homes have merged to avoid these Scenarios.
Here is a Snippet from a Georgia Bankruptcy Case
“Bankruptcy trustee says the bankruptcy case for Frank Griffin and Dent’s Undertaking Establishment is coming to a close; there is no money for prepaid funeral arrangements and the historic property is possibly headed towards foreclosure.
A. Stephenson Wallace, the bankruptcy trustee, says he has filed a motion to abandon the historic property on D’Antignac Street. Now, the case will become a no asset case.
Wallace says this decision was made because the liens against the property were determined to be greater than it’s worth. Wallace says the Richmond County tax digest values the property at $284,000. We’re told it’s current value could be found to be less than that figure.
Wallace lists the liens against the property as:
Almost $200,000 lien by the State of Georgia for unpaid state taxes; $28,000 by the City of Augusta; about $8,000 in unpaid local county taxes; and another $49,000 in various other liens.
That does not include the 20 or more claims filed by victims who said they gave Griffin money for their pre-paid funeral arrangements. Under Georgia law, that money is to be put in a trust immediately. The Georgia State Board of Cemeterians is now investigating Griffin and Dent’s for possibly breaking the law.
Reports have been circulating over the weekend about funeral Director embalmers being at high risk for Cancer. This comes mainly from exposure to Formaldehyde over long periods of time.
Funeral Industry insiders are well aware of the risks and funeral directors are warned of it in Mortuary School.
A summary of the the national Cancer research can be viewed here
LONG TERM EXPSOSURE TO EMBALMING FLUIDS IS LIKELY TO CAUSE CANCER.
Funeral Industry|Funeral Blog by your Funeral Guy.
Researchers in the Division of Cancer Epidemeology and Genetics at the U.S. National Cancer Institute analyzed data on funeral industry workers who died between 1960 and 1986. Information about the workers’ work practices and exposure to formaldehyde throughout their lifetime was collected through interviews with family members and co-workers.
The researchers found that risk rose along with the number of years someone had been involved with embalming and related formaldehyde exposure. The greatest risk was seen among those who’d been involved in embalming for more than 20 years, according to the study.
Embalming fluids pic from flickr under the creative commons license from
Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl because he was moved by the tragic story of her kidnapping and murder.
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