The Washington Post revealed a terrible human and funeral atrocity on Sunday. It happened National Funeral Home in Falls Church Virginia. Demaine Funeral home in Alexandria
The manager at SCI Demaine Funeral Home said it was only a misunderstanding. Deceased loved ones being cared for in terrible conditions. Demaine Funeral home is pictured here.
Virginia is also involved. Fox News just picked up the story. All the guy did was check up on the funeral home and the funeral director. He followed the van back to the embalming facility. That is something I encourage folks to do in Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral.
Check up on the Funeral home and the Funeral Director. Sometimes especially in the corporate or larger organizations things slip through the cracks. In this SCI case in Virginia it was more than an error. One person checking can prevent hundreds from being hurt.
This an example of how things can get out of hand with a large group of Funeral Homes. Human bodies were treated in in disgusting conditions and the Funeral Directors and Embalmers involved should be ashamed.They may have committed crimes. There were deceased loved ones being treated in unthinkable conditions.
From Fox News:
WASHINGTON — A funeral home that helps handle veterans awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery left corpses in an unrefrigerated garage, hallways and on makeshift gurneys, according to a former embalmer who has given his photographs and notes to authorities, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
“According to Fox”
“Photos in a video on the Post Web site show several coffins stacked on a rack in what Napper said was an unrefrigerated garage. Another photo shows a body wrapped in a white sheet on top of a cardboard box.”
A customer had contracted with Demaine Funeral Home an SCI or Service Corporation Funeral Home. When the person taking his father into his care said he was going somewhere else he followed this is what he found:
“Ronald Federici saw a lukewarm cooler overflowing with exposed bodies when his Army colonel father’s body was taken to National in December.
“The stench was disgusting,” Federici of Clifton, Va., told The Associated Press Sunday. He described seeing about 1 to 2 inches of feces and urine on the floor.
Federici immediately reported his observations to officials at Alexandria’s Demaine Funeral Home, which was to handle his father’s embalming. They told him it was a misunderstanding. He later took his complaints to the state and in a Jan. 2 letter, National Funeral Home’s general manager told Virginia officials that the conditions Federici spoke of didn’t exist.”
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