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The customer thought his Veteran fathers body was going to the Service Corporation Funeral Home “Demaine” in Alexandria Virginia. It is a quite beautiful facility.

"Demaine" Funeral Home one of the  Service Corporation Funeral Homes reported in the Washington Post

"Demaine" Funeral Home one of the Service Corporation Funeral Homes reported in the Washington Post

Yahoo News Va funeral home accused of atrocious conditions” April 5th 2009

Los Angeles Times  “D.C. Funeral Home accused of Disturbing Conditions”

Denver Post   “Virginia Funeral Home accused of misconduct”

Washington Times Va Funeral Home accused of atrocious Conditions.

UPI Funeral home let bodies rot”

KRIS TV Corpus Christi Texas  “Va Funeral Home Accused of Atrocious Conditions

Consumer Affairs: Virginia Funeral Home Allegedly Abuses Bodies of Arlington-Bound

Yahoo Finance:   SCI Gets Embroiled in Another Scandal

Fox News.com: Report: Funeral Home Mistreated Veterans Corpses

Aol News:Family seeks criminal probe of Va. funeral home

“Washington Post Article Entitled:
‘I Never Could Have Imagined’
Dignity Was Denied the Dead as Bodies Were Stored and Handled Using ‘Disturbing’ Methods, Area Funeral Home Workers Say

“it is being reported that bodies are just a Greedy Asset For Service Corporation International the worlds largest funeral provider.”

But then he was shocked to find out that his fathers body was going to another place, a Central Embalming Facility. He followed the van and headed to an SCI Dignity Facility.

He turned into National Memorial Park the home of National Funeral Home and and SCI Embalming Faciliity.

The place though had no “DIGNITY” because when the garage door opened and he walked in………..

“the foul odor of decomposition smacked him in the face. A body lay on a gurney in the garage near a rack holding coffins, and the walk-in cooler where his father was to be left was filled with exposed bodies.”-the Washington Post.

National Funeral Home and The Central Embalming Facility are located at National Memorial Park.

National Funeral Home and The Central Embalming Facility are located at National Memorial Park.

Blog by R Brian Burkhardt

All this happened in Northern Virginia near the nations Capital


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National Memorial Park pic on flickr

M.V. Jantzen’s photostream

Dignity Logo Pic on flickr at

Jeremy Brooks’ photostream

Source:Washington Post  an excellent article and video

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