Man Selling Plasticized Corpses Online?

Plasticized corpse huckster Gunther von Hagens is jumping on the grisly express again. The German millionaire bizman scientist is preparing to offer plasticized body parts and entire bodies for sale online, sparking public outrage. Von Hagens developed a way to preserve corpses by replacing body fluids and fat with plastic resin, and has launched a [...]

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Crist Mortuary Apologizes for Dropping Casket

Responding to a lawsuit’s allegations that Crist Mortuary employees dropped the casket of a 20-year-old Boulder High School graduate on the day of his funeral, letting his body roll onto the pavement, the mortuary’s general manager apologized. “We made a mistake,” said Michael Greenwood, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with [...]

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Wilbert Funeral Services CEO Resigns

Last Friday, October 1, 2010, Paul Cooper, Chairman of the Wilbert Funeral Services Inc.(WFSI) board, accepted the resignation of WFSI President and CEO Tony Colson. Tony has elected to leave Wilbert and take a position as President and CEO for a new casket company that is based in Detroit called Genesis Casket Company, which is [...]

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Has Batesville Been Lying About Casket Protection?

The economic state of our country is forcing many companies to diversify themselves into new products as well as new industries, and funeral industry companies have not been excluded from this diversification. Lets look at Batesville Casket company. In the last 12 months they have purchase a burial vault company, a funeral home website company, [...]

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Exclusive: First Look at Batesville’s Burial Vault Graveside Set Up

Last December we reported that Batesville Casket Company (parent company Hillenbrand) bought the Goria Burial Vault company. We also reported in July that Batesville ran job ads on CareerBuilder.com and in local Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky newspapers looking for Diver/Burial Vault Sales Representative, confirming speculation that Batesville was planning to service their own burial [...]

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Cemetery Charging Visitors for Leaving Gifts?

I can only imagine the craziness of Forest Lawn Cemetery since the death of Michael Jackson, but charging visitors for leaving gifts? With the cremation rate rapidly rising I guess Forest Lawn is grabbing the “bull by the horns” and carving out a whole new revenue stream. From JumpOff.tv: It’s gonna cost Michael Jackson fans [...]

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Government Information: 1000′s Killed Incorrectly By Social Security Each Month

Judy Rivers went to the bank with a simple request in April: She wanted to open a safe deposit box. The response, while equally simple, was a complete surprise. The bank turned her down. Why? She was dead. At least that’s what the bank’s security systems indicated. Sorry, a bank official said, we can’t open [...]

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10 Bizarre Last Statements of Death Row Inmates

Before being put to death, criminals are given the opportunity to say a few parting words. Some use this opportunity to apologize for their wrongdoings; some try to let their families know they love them; and others use it as a chance to proclaim their innocence. Then, you have the death row inmates who use [...]

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Ex-LA Mortuary Worker Guilty of Faking Funerals

A former Los Angeles mortuary employee was convicted in an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies of $1.2 million by faking deaths and funerals, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Monday. Jean Crump, 67, was found guilty of two federal counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Prosecutors said Crump, who worked at [...]

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Online Obituary Sites, Speadsheet Keeps You in The Know

There have been a number of new obituary sites popping up all over the internet and for end-users as well as funeral homes it is almost impossible to keep up with all the options. Most obituary sites are on this helpful spreadsheet published by www.onlineobituaryreviews.com. Service Corporation International has its’ own memorial website, Making Everlasting [...]

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