Colorado funeral home owners sold body parts of hundreds of people whose families wanted them cremated, prosecutors say

Prosecutors said the women sold heads, torsos, arms, legs, or entire bodies of people set to be cremated— often without the families' permission.
News4Jax

Black-owned funeral homes adapt for virus, serve communities

An Associated Press member exchange story from the Tampa Bay Times. TAMPA, Fla. – For the first time since 1990, Jeffrey Rhodes has told families that the Ray Williams Funeral Home was booked for the ...
New York Post

Former Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 years for selling body parts from over 500 corpses

A former Colorado funeral home director who dissected over 500 corpses and sold body parts without the consent of grieving relatives has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Megan Hess, 46, and her ...
CNN

Funeral homes inundated with bodies of Covid-19 victims

Only a 2-hour ferry from the US coast, explore crystal clear waters, conch salad and snorkel a shipwreck ...
The New York Times

Overwhelmed by virus victims, a New York funeral home became a scene of ‘horrifying disrespect.’

Andrew T. Cleckley was the first funeral director in New York to have his license revoked over the way he handled the remains of pandemic victims. By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura Sharon Escobar paid a ...
New York Post

Dead man banned from his own funeral after arriving on chair

Che Lewis, a 29-year-old who was shot and killed in Trinidad and Tobago, faced stiff opposition at a church when he arrived sitting on a chair, not lying in a coffin, according to the Sun. The body of ...
The Washington Post

Funeral homes adapted to the pandemic. The changes made grieving harder.

When retired Rear Adm. Paul H. Engel died of covid-related causes in May, his family hoped that the pandemic would be under control by the time his military funeral could take place at Arlington ...
WTVF

After a tornado, four years of rebuilding, and help from the community: Partlow Funeral Chapel reopens

LEBANON, Tenn. (WTVF) — In moments of profound grief, it's often the staff at funeral homes that help us cope. But in Lebanon recently, the roles reversed, when it was a funeral home grieving a loss. ...
Des Moines Register

Claims opened for customers who pre-paid at 'insolvent' Emmetsburg funeral home

In 2012, Dave Nixon and his wife pre-purchased funeral packages from Joyce Funeral Home in Emmetsburg for $10,354.50 each. By the time his wife Judy died in 2020, a court had declared the funeral home ...