The 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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Minnesota 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.
The Funeral For Nodar Kumaritashvili is slated for Saturday, in the country of Georgia, town of Bakuriani.
The body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the luger who was killed in an horrific training accident at the Winter Olympics, was returned to his Georgian hometown yesterday for burial. Dozens of mourners greeted Kumaritashvili’s coffin, draped in a red-and-white Georgian flag, as it arrived at his family home in the mountainous town of Bakuriani ahead of his funeral on Saturday.via www.nationalpost.com
Here is a brief video of his arrival in Georgia.
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Cremation, and the Wildcat scattering of ashes are on the rise, “Wildcat Scattering” means that one scatters ashes 
wherever or whenever they want.
Usually it happens at a location favored by the deceased, or a a special family place. The graveyard can be anywhere.
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“In the funeral business, it’s known as “wildcat scattering.” The Journal describes the practice as “surreptitiously spreading ashes in favorite parks, stadiums, fishing spots or wherever else feels meaningful.” The Cremation Association of North America estimates about 135,000 families a year are choosing to scatter ashes. “Religion used to hold the script of what you did with the dead,” said Tom Jokinen, a former apprentice undertaker who has written an about-to-be-published memoir, “Curtains.” “Cremation has handed the power back to the people to do what they want with the remains of their loves ones.”via www.nytimes.com
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has done an interesting article on The Funeral Corporation Matthews International and the Funeral Industry
The Funeral Corporation Matthews International is gaining income from Non funeral Services and products. In actuality it is more than half it’s income.This has been reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This is another indication of Traditional Funeral Industry Demise and the rise of cremation.
“But while Matthews International is best known for items it supplies for the death care industry, the company is benefiting from a lesser-known part of its business that has come to produce nearly half its annual revenue.
Matthews creates products that stamp expiration dates on toothpaste, liquor and other household items. It provides point-of-sale displays for national retailers.”via www.post-gazette.com
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