Funeral home of horrors: Owners arrested after 190 rotting corpses found
Owners charged with abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/funeral-home-of-horrors-owners-arrested-after-190-rotting-corpses-found/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
What was their end game? I mean what were they gaining by holding onto the bodies?
You can't reach lichdom through legal means
Potentially letting the bodies hit the floor
The only thing I can think of is taking the money for performing the burials. Families pay top dollar for a "green" burial and then they just stash the body and the basement and keep the profit. Seems like they should have found a way to bury the bodies to avoid this whole thing. Or mental illness?
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Funerals should not be a for profit thing. You get preyed on by companies from even before birth all the way to after your death and even beyond (cemetary plot rental fees). When humans die, they should be buried naked in the ground with no embalming. That is the greenest, cheapest, hygienic and most energy conserving method of disposing a dead body. Death should not be masked by formalin and corpse paint.
Yea, just throw me in the trash when I go.
Food for Nyerlathotep.
Pies.
meat for sausage
Money?
The articles recommended when you try to leave Ars Techica aren't restricted to any kind of recent news so I got a headline that Aaron Swartz had been arrested for JSTOR downloads and had a whole "what year is it!?" moment.
First thoughts. Fuck this ad B's on this website
They dead ass watched Ozark once and thought that they could do the thing.