WhistleBlowers Claim Bodies ‘Mutilated’ at local Morgue|YourFuneralGuyBlog

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There is a recent news story about Whistleblowers Claim Bodies ‘Mutilated’ at Local Morgue. the story comes from Seattle, Washington.

Insiders from the funeral industry and the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office say some bodies are being mutilated during autopsies.

An investigative report by KOMO news of Seattle Washington reveals a former high-level manager at the morgue saying assistants and trainees were often doing complex procedures that should be performed by a pathologist. As a result, arteries and blood vessels were often mangled causing major difficulties for embalmers. “When you can’t embalm the face properly then the face doesn’t look lifelike,” he said.

Funeral home sources tell KOMO that compensating for this type of damage takes so much time that families are being charged $3,000 to $5,000 dollars extra for the effort. And it’s a cost they have no idea they’re paying.

Funeral homes insist they’ve complained repeatedly but to date, no formal investigation has been launched by the Snohomish County council. Interestingly, since the KOMO report, several county officials have begun demanding action, calling for an outside, independent inquiry into the allegations.

Posted by Karen Jones, author of DEATH FOR BEGINNERS Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable

via www.komonews.com

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Human Remains leaking in Airliner Cargo Hold|Your Funeral Guy

There is a local story of human remains leaking in  a Cargo Hold of A Southwest Airlines Jet Cargo Hold.  Funeral News often does not get reported and stories that are reported (like this one)do not make into the National News.

The offending party(Shipper of Human Remains) is not even named in the story. Now the funeral industry leaders often accuse the press of reporting on a few bad apples making their profession look bad. The opposite is true. The press(media) rarely reports on the many bad apple funeral directors.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is apologizing to some of it’s customers after an incident involving their bags and human remains.

Baggage handlers in Albuquerque, New Mexico were unloading the cargo bin of Flight 477 from Houston Thursday afternoon when they discovered blood had leaked from inside a shipping container with human remains.

In a statement Friday, the airline admits blood did get on some of the passenger luggage, but says it was a small amount of bags and that the passengers have ‘been compensated for the damage’ of their bags.

via cbs11tv.com

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