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Corpse Mishandling

A qualified person has to declare death because somewhere in between a person who has been turned into a fine red mist and someone who got a fright as the train came 1cm from hitting them and had to sit down for a moment will be a grey area of people who perhaps took a glancing blow from a slow moving train and are unconcious but still alive. It makes sense to just take the whole lot out of the drivers hands as a single mistake like that would cause all manner of legal action.

No excuse for being shitty to a driver that has experienced this though. None.
 
Mythopoeika said:
They should have given you trauma counselling after that.
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It's always offered and I could have gone and seen this person or that person. I couldn't be bother to go through all that talking just 'stuff'. It works for some people and for some it's essential they do that but for myself, it does nothing.
 
I'm calling this corpse mishandling, because bodies are being used as instruments of terror / intimidation.
"Packaged" corpses sow terror in Colombian capital

For several months, bodies wrapped in plastic, some dismembered, have appeared on the streets of Colombia's capital Bogota — grim proof of an escalating vendetta between rival Venezuelan gangs.

Not even the bombings by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, or the murderous activities of leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries, have generated as much terror as the "packaged" corpses.

Since January, 23 bodies wrapped in plastic have been found abandoned in the city. ...

The bloody trail has reached eight of the 19 districts in a city that, while beset with organized crime, has been spared the worst of Colombia's decades of violent conflict.

It is the dismembering that has most shocked residents. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/packaged-corpses-sow-terror-in-bogota-colombia/
 
René Descartes Was A Victim Of Skull Blasting And The Skull In Paris Is A Fraud, Researchers Suggest

Descartes, of "I think, therefore I am" fame, didn't have the best of times shortly following his death. It's not a great time for anyone, but when Descartes passed away in 1650 his corpse had to deal with rather a lot of thieves. He was first buried in a Catholic cemetery in Stockholm, before being moved to the Sainte-Geneviève in Paris in 1666.

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In the 1790s, Descartes' body was dug up again, in an attempt to protect it from the carnage of the French Revolution. When they looked at the remains, however, they found just a tibia, parts of a skull, and a femur. The archaeologist and collector who dug him up – Alexandre Lenoir – reportedly wasted no time in turning the small fragment of skull that remained into rings.

A mystery remained as to what happened to the rest of the philosopher's remains. When he was reburied in 1819, people noticed the missing skull, including chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Berzelius later became aware of a skull that supposedly belonged to Descartes back in Sweden, tracked it down, and bought it from the owner, in order to return it to France.

"Berzelius never doubted its authenticity," a team from Lund University who questions that very authenticity wrote in a book chapter in 2020, "since the names of six individuals, several of whom were eminent Swedish scholars and assumed to be previous owners of the skull, were inscribed on it."

Since then, the skull, believed to be authentic, has resided in Paris's Musée de l'Homme.

But, according to the researchers at Lund University, the skull could be a forgery, while a separate piece of skull thought to be a forgery could in turn be part of Descartes' skull. The piece of skull in question resides at Lund, having been donated in 1780. It had its own inscription, too, with the number six written on it, which the team believes was due to it being part of six fragments created during skull blasting.

"Perhaps the fragmenting of the skull and selling of several relics was an attempt to increase the profit."

Skull blasting is an old technique of separating the individual bones of the human skull, either in order to sell it in smaller pieces or for study. Essentially, the method is to take the skull and fill it with an expandable grain, and sometimes dried peas, and then fill it with water to let the expanding grains and pressure do their thing.

For what it's worth, a study in 2014 found that dried chickpeas were the fastest way to blast the skull, beating mung beans by a margin.

https://www.iflscience.com/ren-desc...in-paris-is-a-fraud-researchers-suggest-65602

maximus otter
 
Get ultimately trashed and die by overdose at an all-night party, and your friends will wheel you out for trash pickup the following morning ...
Woman found dead in bin in driveway of Staten Island home

A woman was found dead inside a large bin in the driveway of a home on Staten Island on Friday.

The body was discovered by a neighbor around 5:45 a.m. in the driveway of a home ... in the Port Richmond section. ...

Police and EMS responded and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators said It appeared the victim was dumped there after an apparent drug overdose.

A man living in the house said he heard some banging sounds around 5 a.m. after what was an all-night party in a nearby apartment. ...

Detectives brought the tenant of the apartment where they believe the woman died in for questioning. No charges were immediately filed.

The man who they suspect actually dumped the body, believed a friend of the tenant, is still being sought.

The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The investigation is ongoing.
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FULL STORY: https://abc7ny.com/woman-found-dead-body-discovered-in-bin-driveway-staten-island/12355420/
 
Maryland family orders prop casket for Halloween party, finds dead woman’s belongings, including her ashes

The Wozniak family said they had ordered the casket from Facebook Marketplace. After the discovery, the family took to TikTok to share the bizarre episode in the hopes of returning the items to the deceased woman’s family.

In the video, a grandmother says the family found the ashes of Edith Crews, a 74-year-old community pastor who died in January of COVID-19.

Other items found taped underneath the cardboard of the casket inside included Crews’ photograph, her death certificate, which had her social security number, and the George Washington University Hospital bracelet she wore.

https://www.fox8tv.com/maryland-fam...s-dead-womans-belongings-including-her-ashes/

maximus otter
 
This Arizona man met a female and they did meth together. She died. He attempted to reanimate her by the novel tactic of stabbing her in the heart. It didn't work, and it was around three days later when his mother found the body in his bedroom.
Mesa man accused of trying to bring woman back to life by stabbing her in ritual

A Mesa man performed a ritual to bring a dead woman back to life by stabbing her in the heart and then didn’t tell law enforcement about the body for days ... The incident happened last month, but 34-year-old Stephen Joseph Anderson was arrested on Wednesday. ...

According to court paperwork, Anderson met 33-year-old Rebecca Lynn Lambert at a park close to Signal Butte and Broadway roads around Nov. 12 and took her to his nearby house. They went to his bedroom and did methamphetamine ... Anderson told investigators he took a shower, and when he returned to the bedroom, Lambert was dead. Court paperwork said Anderson later told detectives he wanted to revive her, so he performed a ritual by stabbing her in the heart with his 5-inch silver knife. It went all the way into her body. ...

Roughly two days went by, and on Nov. 14, Anderson was spotted in the middle of the road holding a knife and a hammer. According to court documents, neighbors said he jumped out in front of a driver who went by, and they thought he was going to attack the driver ... When officers arrived, he only had his knife, and they told him to drop it, which he did. He was then taken into custody. Officers noticed the knife had a little blood on it, but they didn’t know about the body in the house.

Anderson was then taken to a facility for those with mental health issues. On Nov. 15, police say he called his mom from the facility and told her to keep his kids away from his bedroom. The mother wondered what was wrong, so she went to Anderson’s house and found Lambert dead in his bedroom. She then called 911. Once Anderson was released from the facility, he was arrested at his home on Wednesday. Police said he admitted to the allegations and knew it was wrong to stab a body. He was booked into jail on a felony count of disorderly conduct, one felony count of mutilation of a body and a misdemeanor count of failure to report a death. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.azfamily.com/2022/12/22...bring-woman-back-life-by-stabbing-her-ritual/
 

Colorado funeral home owner admits to selling body parts for cash​


A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty to secretly dissecting corpses and selling body parts without consent from mourning relatives.

Megan Hess — who operated the Sunset Mesa funeral home in Montrose and a human body parts business called Donor Services from the same building — admitted in federal court Tuesday to defrauding at least a dozen families who had paid to have their late loved ones cremated.

Instead of cremating the bodies, she harvested heads, spines, arms & legs and then sold them, according to court records.​

Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, charged customers $1,000 or more for cremations that never occurred.

Many families received ashes mixed with the remains of different cadavers, prosecutors said. One client received a concrete mix instead of the remains of their loved one.

Hess forged dozens of body donor consent forms, federal investigators found. A former employee accused her of earning $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some of the deceased as part of the macabre scheme, according to court documents.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/color...n-hess-admits-to-selling-body-parts-for-cash/

maximus otter
 
This nearly went into Fortean Headlines:

Man Walking Dog Finds Human Hand Belonging to Woman Buried in Cemetery

NEW YORK — A dog and its owner made an eerie discovery while on a walk in New York City on Thursday afternoon.

Officials said a human hand was found near the North Mount Loretto State Forest in the Pleasant Plains area of Staten Island around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Officials with the city medical examiner’s office confirmed to the news outlet that it was a right hand.

Fingerprint analysis of the human hand found that it belonged to a 63-year-old woman who died in 2011 and was buried at Resurrection Cemetery. The cemetery was about a mile away from where the hand was found.

The plot next to her grave was excavated on Feb. 27 for a new burial site. The woman’s casket was reportedly damaged during the excavation process and it is believed that may explain why her hand was found by the dog.

Police say it is unclear how the hand ended up a mile away.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/t...new-york-cemetery/EAMVY6LTQRCNXEBOQJW7EHSHPY/

maximus otter
 
From the comments here:
https://9gag.com/gag/aqeRB0Y

I used to work in a crematorium and how these incinerators work is there is a primary burner that puts a focused burn on the body and a few smaller burners that are in the smoke stack that is used to burn the smoke. This results in virtually no emissions and why you almost never see smoke rising out of the stacks but can see heat ripples.

By best guess on what is happening here is the body was loaded into the incinerator too quickly after the previous body was cremated and the incinerator was still too hot. This can cause the extremely flammable fat on a body to ignite all at once instead of gradually. This causes an extremely hot and powerful fire and this can overpower the secondary burners causing smoke and sometimes flames to be be visible from the stacks. Once it ignited like this there’s no fixing it, you just need to let the fat content burn up.
 
uair01 said:
From the comments here:
https://9gag.com/gag/aqeRB0Y

I used to work in a crematorium and how these incinerators work is there is a primary burner that puts a focused burn on the body and a few smaller burners that are in the smoke stack that is used to burn the smoke. This results in virtually no emissions and why you almost never see smoke rising out of the stacks but can see heat ripples.

By best guess on what is happening here is the body was loaded into the incinerator too quickly after the previous body was cremated and the incinerator was still too hot. This can cause the extremely flammable fat on a body to ignite all at once instead of gradually. This causes an extremely hot and powerful fire and this can overpower the secondary burners causing smoke and sometimes flames to be be visible from the stacks. Once it ignited like this there’s no fixing it, you just need to let the fat content burn up.
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Until about 4 years ago, when some upgrading was done at our local crematorium, smoke was alway seen emerging from its chimney after funerals. It was visible from a long way off and people would joke about it. You could even look up online who was being processed.
 

Frozen Norwegian won’t leave Nederland for resurrected Dead Guy Days festival in Estes Park — for now​


This weekend’s Frozen Dead Guy Days festival, newly moved from where it began in the mountain hamlet of Nederland to Estes Park, is expected to draw more than 12,000 revelers starting Friday. Visit Estes Park promoters said tickets required for access to activities are nearly sold out.

But the cryonics-preserved body of Norwegian grandfather Bredo Morstoel still sits in a Tuff Shed 40 miles away in Nederland — where the mayor and others don’t want to let it go.

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Bredo Morstoel while still at 98.6°F

That may change. Morstoel’s remains eventually must be moved to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, according to hotel owner John Cullen, who returned Tuesday from Norway following a second round of negotiations with Trygve Bauge, Morstoel’s grandson who in 1989 brought the body of his beloved, then recently deceased grandfather to America.

A deal in the works will transfer Morstoel from the Tuff Shed to a new facility next to the Stanley for long-term state-of-the-art preservation as part of a cryonics museum, Cullen [said].

Norwegian family members have financed the preservation of the body on their property at an elevation around 9,000 feet above sea level in Nederland for three decades, paying $1,000 a month for dry ice hauled from Denver by hired caretakers. The ice is packed into an insulated box in the stalwart gray, red-trimmed Tuff Shed, where a red-blue-and-white Norwegian flag droops Daliesque from the rafters. Their motivation: enabling cloning in the future as human technology advances to allow resurrection.

A raucous pre-Easter celebration created in Nederland became the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival in 2002. Owned by Nederland locals, it featured coffin races, a hearse parade, Bredo lookalike contests, and icy cold plunges.

Then, in 2022, an estimated 22,000 people, including scores who drove up from Denver, overwhelmed Nederland, which has fewer than 200 motel beds and a population of 1,523. Festival organizers, to prevent cancellation this year, sold the festival to Cullen.

Nederland officials this week, unaware of Cullen’s overtures in Norway, expressed ambivalence about losing the festival to Estes Park, where industrial-scale tourism is a specialty, though they politely wished Estes Park good luck and pledged support.

“The void of there being no frozen dead guy festival here this year is undeniable,” Nederland Mayor Billy Giblin said in an interview.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...-festival-in-estes-park-—-for-now/ar-AA18HLt3

maximus otter
 
Chilling ‘bone room’ hiding gruesome remains from multiple bodies found in office after fluid seen seeping under door

A NURSE made the gruesome discovery of a room filled with human remains after she saw fluid leaking from under a door.

The worker stumbled across the "bone room" inside a Melbourne, Australia, health agency building.

A nurse educator noticed the mysterious fluid seeping into the hallway from an abandoned room at Eastern Health’s administrative building on February 14, Melbourne's Coroners Court heard on Thursday.

Bone and tissue fragments from unknown people were being stored in containers and bins so the woman quickly reported the grisly incident to infection prevention and control officers at Monash Medical School.

According to Eastern Health, the ghastly room was set up by the ENT clinical director in 2008 where it was used by medical trainees who studied the body parts.

But there are no records that prove the room was used for teaching or about where the remains came from.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22030292/bone-room-hiding-remains-multiple-bodies-found-office/

maximus otter
 
It being Mexico these may well be the bodies of cartel victims.

Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human remains in a ravine outside the western city of Guadalajara.

Officials were searching for seven young call centre workers, who had been reported missing last week, when they found the bodies. The remains include men and women, and the number of bodies is not yet known. The search is expected to continue for several days because of difficult terrain and poor lighting.

The state prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco said in a statement that, following a tip-off in the search for the seven people, they had begun searching at the Mirador del Bosque ravine where they found the bags that included body parts. Firefighters and civil defence were working with police and a helicopter crew to recover the remains.

The first bag was found on Tuesday, but because of the difficult terrain and lack of sunlight, the investigation resumed on Wednesday and will continue until all remains are located, the prosecutor's office said. Officials said they would continue working to determine the number of dead bodies, who they were, and their causes of death.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65784023
 
How do you miss a coffin? It's a tad bigger than a suitcase.

An "urgent investigation" has been launched after a coffin containing a man's body was inadvertently left on a plane at Dublin airport and flown to Greece.

The Sunday Independent reported , externalthe incident involving an Irish citizen who died in Greece.

His body was returned to Ireland but his coffin was not removed from the plane, as intended.

The aircraft then returned to Greece.

Swissport, the ground handling firm at Dublin Airport, said: "We are deeply sorry for the family’s experience at such a difficult time and did everything we could to ensure things were resolved quickly."

The firm said an investigation was underway to "make sure lessons are learned".

It was reported that the man's remains were repatriated the following day by another airline. but the funeral had to be rearranged.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97n30q4lrjo
 
ramonmercado said:
It being Mexico these may well be the bodies of cartel victims.

Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human remains in a ravine outside the western city of Guadalajara.

Officials were searching for seven young call centre workers, who had been reported missing last week, when they found the bodies. The remains include men and women, and the number of bodies is not yet known. The search is expected to continue for several days because of difficult terrain and poor lighting.

The state prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco said in a statement that, following a tip-off in the search for the seven people, they had begun searching at the Mirador del Bosque ravine where they found the bags that included body parts. Firefighters and civil defence were working with police and a helicopter crew to recover the remains.

The first bag was found on Tuesday, but because of the difficult terrain and lack of sunlight, the investigation resumed on Wednesday and will continue until all remains are located, the prosecutor's office said. Officials said they would continue working to determine the number of dead bodies, who they were, and their causes of death.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65784023
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It was the missing call centre workers.

Tests carried out on human remains found dumped in a ravine in Mexico suggest they are those of workers who disappeared from a call centre.

Eight young employees were reported missing in the days leading up to the gruesome discovery last week. Investigators suspect the call centre was a front for an illegal estate agency aimed at defrauding and extorting US tourists. They think it was run by the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG).

It is not yet clear if the eight workers may have fallen foul of the CJNG or if they were targeted by members of a rival cartel. The dismembered remains were found on 31 May in dozens of black bags ditched at the bottom of a deep ravine in Zapopan, in western Jalisco state.

The state government confirmed on Tuesday "that [the remains] are those of the young people who had been reported missing".

Six men and two women from the area disappeared between 20 and 31 May. All of them worked at the same call centre which is now under investigation for allegedly being used to defraud foreigners looking to buy timeshares in Mexican tourist resorts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65832537
 
Man finds three severed heads at his desk after he complains to boss about work

Dale Wheatley, who works at an organisation that manages the donation of cadavers to medical schools, says the grim find came after he tried to blow the whistle on the shocking condition the bodies are kept in.

Mr Wheatley described the "deplorable" conditions at the Chicago non-profit, The Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois (AGA), including instances of donated cadavers being eaten by rats.

He has claimed that some bodies had to be returned by medical institutions due to their poor condition.

He said: "There's been instances where I've pulled donors from our storing room out of the racks, and rats have chewed through the bottom of the bag, through the feet.”

After a local university’s anatomy lab manager complained about the condition of cadavers, Mr Wheatley encouraged them to report her concerns to Mr O’Connor.

In an email to Mr O’Connor and Mr Wheatley, the lab manager reported that "flies were crawling on the bodies, that the limbs contained mould and rot, and that its students had become sick after being exposed to the bodies during the course of their studies".

It was after approaching his supervisors with his concerns Mr Wheatley found three severed heads from donated bodies on his desk.

Mr Wheatley said: "My boss walked by, I asked him why the heads were at my desk. He said they need to get back with their bodies so we can send them to cremation. I said, I understand that, 'Why are they at my desk?' and he said, 'I don't know Dale, there's a lot of strange things happening."
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I expect everyone here knows this already:

From:
Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
Arran Lomas

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...t?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ClBQGuHAVF&rank=1

William died on 9 September 1087 following an injury sustained seizing Mantes during a military expedition against the French. But William’s departure from the world was slightly less heroic than his legacy gives credence to. His corpse was taken on a seventy-mile journey via boat down the Seine to its intended burial site at Caen. During this long voyage, bacteria seeped into his intestines and released putrid gas which massively inflated his bowels. Upon reaching the burial site, the stone coffin that had been constructed for him was far smaller than the now much-enlarged, gas-filled corpse. During his funeral, they attempted to force his disgusting Zeppelin of a corpse into the stone tomb. Then, all of a sudden, the body burst, his putrefied innards flew through the air and covered everyone present in monarch juice. A final and disgusting slap in the face from a king who had made it his calling to conquer, control and shit on people’s liberties.
 
uair01 said:
bacteria seeped into his intestines and released putrid gas which massively inflated his bowels
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The bacteria are already there in our intestines, ready and waiting to start digesting our organs when we die; expelling the methane and ammonia that bloat the abdomen after death.

Just keeping a corpse's organs intact without refrigeration will facilitate this natural process. This is why cultures that practice mummification remove the organs first to process separately.

Admiral Nelson's body was preserved intact in a cask of French brandy with mixed camphor and myrrh. This didn't stop the decomposition process entirely and at some point the gases it produced blew the lid off the cask.
The body was found to have absorbed much of the brandy more than once so the barrel was topped up.

The news of Nelson's death didn't arrive in London for 16 days. It was delivered by the captain of HMS Pickle. :cool:
 
Ashes rather than corpses.

The United States Postal Service is looking for a way to get 452 packages of unidentified cremated remains to their final destination, according to a report by the USPS Office of Inspector General.

Though USPS is the only legal method for sending cremated remains through the mail, the OIG found that strict shipping rules are not being followed between 28% and 50% of the time.

Regulations state these sensitive parcels must be shipped via Priority Mail Express and labeled with an alarming orange “cremated remains” sticker. This label is supposed to indicate the goods should be handled by their specific protocols.

Overlooking these rules could be a major reason hundreds of cremated remains are currently resting at USPS’s lost package warehouse, officially known as the Mail Recovery Center. Illegible addresses are often another big reason behind the wayward packages.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/usps-unidentified-cremated-remains_n_64aad0fbe4b0e5efaadc6c43
 

Human skulls being sold on Facebook "filled Kentucky home", FBI says​


Approximately 40 human body parts were found in the home of a Kentucky man, who the FBI says was a part of a multi-state scheme to buy and sell human remains.

The scheme led to the initial arrests of six people. They included a mortuary worker in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School.

Some of the body parts stolen from morgues in Massachusetts and Arkansas ended up in the Mt. Washington, Kentucky, home. The Kentucky man, according to the FBI, used the pseudonym William Burke on Facebook. Burke was a serial killer in the 1800s in Scotland and sold victims’ bodies to an influential lecturer.

Under the Burke alias, the Mt. Washington man sold body parts through Facebook, according to details in the criminal complaint.

A Pennsylvania man he is accused of selling human remains to has since been arrested.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article277275968.html

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:

Human skulls being sold on Facebook "filled Kentucky home", FBI says​


Approximately 40 human body parts were found in the home of a Kentucky man, who the FBI says was a part of a multi-state scheme to buy and sell human remains.

The scheme led to the initial arrests of six people. They included a mortuary worker in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School.

Some of the body parts stolen from morgues in Massachusetts and Arkansas ended up in the Mt. Washington, Kentucky, home. The Kentucky man, according to the FBI, used the pseudonym William Burke on Facebook. Burke was a serial killer in the 1800s in Scotland and sold victims’ bodies to an influential lecturer.

Under the Burke alias, the Mt. Washington man sold body parts through Facebook, according to details in the criminal complaint.

A Pennsylvania man he is accused of selling human remains to has since been arrested.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article277275968.html

maximus otter
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You do often hear stories of mortuaries selling human remains.

What I would like to know is - who buys them, and what use are they ?

I can't imagine having a leg as a centrepiece on the coffee table.

Yet there does seem to be a market - somewhere.
 
Salmonellus said:
You do often hear stories of mortuaries selling human remains.

What I would like to know is - who buys them, and what use are they ?

I can't imagine having a leg as a centrepiece on the coffee table.

Yet there does seem to be a market - somewhere.
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I have in my varied life come across people who would be quite excited by the prospect of owning a skull or two, or maybe a necklace of finger bones.
 
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Funeral canceled at last minute, deceased buried two days earlier

A funeral in Voerendaal, Limburg, was called off at the very last minute yesterday because the deceased man had accidentally been buried two days earlier. "The church was already full when we heard the news," his son told 1Limburg.
"Half an hour before the service started I got a call. Whether I could come to the funeral home right away. It was urgent." There he was told that something had gone wrong at the funeral home. His father had already been buried two days earlier at another funeral, from a different family.
"Saturday there had also been a funeral. That family said goodbye to the wrong person. My father was buried there, in the wrong grave."
Empty coffin
The church was already packed with people who wanted to say goodbye to the 64-year-old man from Voerendaal. "The funeral home still suggested continuing the service with an empty coffin, but we didn't like that at all," says the son. The funeral director informed all those present on the spot. "Of course they were especially intensely sad that such a thing could happen," he says.
The situation was also incredibly unpleasant for the other family, says the son. "They had to be informed later. They had said goodbye to the wrong person."
Mayor Wil Houben of Voerendaal informs that the municipality gives permission for the coffin to be exhumed and reburied. "The funeral association will make arrangements with both families about the further course of the burials of both deceased," the mayor said.
Mistake
The funeral home let it be known in a comment that they are very sorry for what happened. The employee responsible for changing the bodies has been fired.
"This is very unpleasant for all parties. We are in conversation with both families and are trying to arrange everything as best we can and deal with this respectfully," a spokesperson told the regional broadcaster.

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