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Horrendous shock for grieving family

A grieving Canadian family faced an extra dose of bad news when they arrived at the funeral home to attend the memorial for Marguerite Mercier-Pelletier. They found that the funeral home had placed the wrong body in her coffin, but the grim discovery came too late. Directors at the Oscar St-Ours funeral home in Shawinigan,…

Mo. funeral home accused of mishandled bodies

By Chris Blank, Associated Press Writer 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…

Bodies Switched at NYC Funeral Home

N E W  Y O R K, June 12 By Karen Matthews Body ID tags were accidentally switched at a funeral home, and one woman wound up being buried in the other woman’s grave even though at least one relative noticed something was amiss. “This is a terrible mistake,” Unity Funeral Chapels’ Clifford James said today. He said…

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