Would you want your loved one treated like this after death?

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Check out this article on a Missouri funeral home who left bodies to rot instead of embalming them or cremating them as required. Abject disregard for the dead - I hope they are required to give back any money paid to them for the services (in addition to any criminal charges for abuse of a corpse!) Mo. funeral home accused of mishandled bodies By CHRIS BLANK The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri's attorney general on Friday accused a funeral home of improperly handling bodies, including one that was stored in an electrical room for 10 months without being embalmed or refrigerated. The woman, identified in a lawsuit only as "J.H.," died Sept. 9 from several types of hepatitis. State inspectors found her body in advanced decay on July 11 at a Columbia funeral home. When inspectors returned four days later, the body was still there. It was then turned over to the medical examiner's office to be cremated. The attorney general's office sued Warren Funeral Chapel Inc. and its operators, Harold Warren Jr. and Harold Warren Sr. A call to the funeral home seeking comment was not immediately returned. The lawsuit identifies several examples of bodies left outside refrigerators and not embalmed for more than 24 hours. In each case, the individuals are identified only by their initials to protect their privacy. During a July 16 visit, state inspectors found in the funeral home's basement a coffin containing "L.F." and a black garbage bag filled with organs from more than one body. According to the lawsuit, Harold Warren Sr. said he had forgotten to bury the organs with "D.T." and instead planned to cremate them with "L.F." But, according to the lawsuit, state regulators don't think the organs in the garbage bag belong to "D.T." either. According to state regulations, remains from more than one body cannot be cremated at the same time. The lawsuit also accuses the funeral home of embalming bodies when the contract called for cremation. Inspectors had reported a strong odor throughout the funeral home, a casket with a body and body fluids at the foot, an embalming table covered in blood and utensils that had not been disinfected. "There are very serious concerns for human health and safety about how this establishment has handled human remains," Attorney General Jay Nixon said in a statement. The lawsuit seeks civil fines and a court order barring the company or its owners from operating. July 26, 2008 5:17 AM http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-07262008-1568385.html Thank God I haven't had to experience anything this horrific. What the hell are these people thinking? That no one at all will ever notice???? The worst thing I've seen happen is that after my father-in-law died, the funeral home took him to the wrong cemetary. Half the mourners went to the right one and the other half followed the misguided hearse. His eldest daughter said, "I guess Daddy just wanted one last view of town." So, has your family or anyone you know had any mortuary mishaps? None as graphic as this story, but anything that went wrong at all - even if it turned out later to be humorous rather than horrible?