Burr Oak Cemetery has reopened (sort of). If want to check up on a loved one’s grave you can visit the cemetery before November 27th
Burr Oak Cemetery
You cannot drive there or walk in until November 27th 2009.Your ticket can be obtained from the owner of the Cemetery’s Burr Oak site, Perpetua, Inc at http://www.burroakalsip.com/
Burr Oak Cemetery is the site where Three Hundred Graves were desecrated and bones where piled up all over the Cemetery.Four people were arrested THERE IS MORE THAN A WORLD OF HURT THERE that still needs to still be resolved.
Part of the plan to keep traffic at the cemetery down is to open up on Black Friday the busiest shopping day of the Year.
In order to correct the Burr Oak Cemetery situation Illinois has proposed cemetery reform and the NATIONAL House of Representatives has proposed the Bereaved Consumers Bill of Rights Act.
Bodies are piling up around the USA, Indigent funerals are exploding and folks are not claiming their loved one’s on purpose. People Simply do not have the money. In spite of all this some claim the recession is over. People lack funds for burials.
“Death sure isn’t cheap. The average price of a casket is $2,000, according to U.S. Funerals online.
When you factor in the funeral service, it’s downright expensive to die. And in this economy, many people simply cannot afford the high cost of death, which might explain why bodies are piling up in morgues and the demand for publicly funded burials is on the rise.
In one Detroit morgue, even the county can’t afford to bury the dead people piling up.CNN reports that in Wayne County bodies are piling up inside the freezers in the morgue. Families are not claiming the bodies and the county can’t afford the burials of the corpses.”Some people don’t come forward even though they know the people are here,” Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, told CNN. “They don’t have the money.”Wayne County now has a record number of unclaimed bodies, and the county budget to deal with this issue is only $21,000 annually – not nearly enough money to remedy the problem.
Furthermore, coroners and funeral directors in other major cities have seen a spike in the number of people looking for government-paid funerals, burials and cremations, according to USA Today.”People just aren’t in a position to pay $7,000 for a private funeral and burial,” Lt. David Smith of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office told USA Today. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has seen a 97% increase in indigent deaths from January to June 2009, and Las Vegas has seen a 22% increase in the past year…..
The New National Funeral and Cemetery Legislation revealed on 9.21.09 is a big game changer for the Cemetery and Funeral Business in the United States of America.
The Bereaved Consumers Protection Act is in the the legislative process in the US Congress.
This Legislation will pass. The Legislation was created in response to the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal where over 300 graves were desecrated. Last week a Service Corporation International(SCI) cemetery scandal was revealed at Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, California. 5oo graves were desecrated at that location.
National cemetery reform legislation on the way in the US House of Representatives
7.27.09 Cemetery reform legislation to come. This is the news out of Chicago today after a House Subcommittee had a hearing on the Burr Oak cemetery Scandal. It will proposed in the US Congress.
An attorney for ICFHA (Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home Association) stated that Federal Cemetery Legislation was not necessary. families of folks buried there gave emotional testimony about the grave desecration.
After hearing from Burr Oak Cemetery Victims the Chairmen of the Subcommittee, Congressman Bobby Rush Stated:
“The lobbyists aren’t going to rule the day, the consumers are going to rule the day”-Snippet from the Chicago Suntimes
Rush also said “he was convinced following the three-hour hearing that the federal government should adopt a set of minimum standards for proper record keeping, burial care and consumer protection and he plans to draw up legislation that would address that.”–Snippet www.wgntv.com
Funeral Industry|Funeral Blog by Your Funeral Guy.
Bill on 
on 
