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Monday, June 12, 2006
1:32:00 PM EDT
Hearing Some scherzo by Delius
What happens when you die and your relatives don't claim your body? Coroners around the US are finding out:
Thomas Tellis died in March, but his cremated remains are still waiting to be claimed at a Canton funeral home. Shortly after the 89-year-old's death, investigators located Tellis' daughter, but the woman, who was born out of wedlock and raised by another man, refused to claim Tellis' body.
The case is part of what coroners and funeral directors see as a disturbing trend: bodies going unclaimed because relatives are either unwilling or unable to shoulder the responsibility or expense of burying the dead.
There's one story in this article about people who admitted they could afford to bury the deceased, thanks to insurance the deceased had, but that they took the money and used it to remodel the kitchen instead. Note to self: Be nice to family between now and death. I plan to be cremated anyway, so at least it'll be (relatively) cheap. No matter what, however, this is just a sad tale.
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1:32:00 PM EDT
Hearing Some scherzo by Delius
The Saddest Story You'll Read Today
What happens when you die and your relatives don't claim your body? Coroners around the US are finding out:
Thomas Tellis died in March, but his cremated remains are still waiting to be claimed at a Canton funeral home. Shortly after the 89-year-old's death, investigators located Tellis' daughter, but the woman, who was born out of wedlock and raised by another man, refused to claim Tellis' body.
The case is part of what coroners and funeral directors see as a disturbing trend: bodies going unclaimed because relatives are either unwilling or unable to shoulder the responsibility or expense of burying the dead.
There's one story in this article about people who admitted they could afford to bury the deceased, thanks to insurance the deceased had, but that they took the money and used it to remodel the kitchen instead. Note to self: Be nice to family between now and death. I plan to be cremated anyway, so at least it'll be (relatively) cheap. No matter what, however, this is just a sad tale.
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oh geez..I'm gonna start being nice then...talking of family who can't afford to bury their own family, I know of a woman who had to give prematurely birth to their child because of birth defects, some sort of abortion, but the baby was still breathing and they left the baby in the hosp because they couldn't afford to bury the baby. Sad sad sad tales.
Gem -
The Smurf is pretty much all about dying first.
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my parents have already pre-planned and pre-paid everything. everything. I just need to show up, and maybe cough up the money for some flowers.
Kathy -
This says more about the real state of "family values" than all the gay marriage bans in the world.
4/23/07 6:21 PM
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