Burial Plots. / Kit R. Roane.
by Roane, Kit R; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 66Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Cemeteries -- Desecration | Dead | Undertakers and undertaking -- Corrupt practicesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When [Gladys] Bohn died two years ago [2000], at the age of 96, family members say the funeral home first lost her body, then delivered her to the graveside in a Styrofoam-like box. Her body was later placed in a coffin, but the promised clergy and flowers never materialized. A few months later, when Bohn's family had her disinterred...they found her clothed in a hospital gown and stuffed in a vinyl bag....Although the recent gruesome goings-on at Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga., have horrified the nation--investigators have discovered that more than 300 corpses intended for cremation were instead strewn about the property--Bohn's family's experience and dozens of similar cases show abuse of the dead is nowhere near as rare as the reaction to the Georgia case suggests." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article focuses on cemetery abuses and reveals that such occurrences are more widespread than previously believed.
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Originally Published: Burial Plots, March 11, 2002; pp. 20+.
"When [Gladys] Bohn died two years ago [2000], at the age of 96, family members say the funeral home first lost her body, then delivered her to the graveside in a Styrofoam-like box. Her body was later placed in a coffin, but the promised clergy and flowers never materialized. A few months later, when Bohn's family had her disinterred...they found her clothed in a hospital gown and stuffed in a vinyl bag....Although the recent gruesome goings-on at Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga., have horrified the nation--investigators have discovered that more than 300 corpses intended for cremation were instead strewn about the property--Bohn's family's experience and dozens of similar cases show abuse of the dead is nowhere near as rare as the reaction to the Georgia case suggests." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article focuses on cemetery abuses and reveals that such occurrences are more widespread than previously believed.
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