[Lmo56]

Jeez - don't ya JUST hate when that happens ...

Read the full article - I just excerpted some good parts ...

[clamper1797]

I hate when that happens

[Talisker]

But family members said the woman at the South Philadelphia funeral home insisted: "That's how they look when they die." ...

Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt.

[JRandomFreeper]

"The casket had tilted and his leg was hanging out," said Wearing, who believed they drove so fast, hitting bumps, that the casket opened ...

I can live(die) with that. Late to own funeral, appearance unbecoming, failure to keep limbs in coffin, probably smelling like booze laced with formaldehyde. I think it's what my family would expect of me.

/johnny

[visualops]

Philadelphia...isn’t that the place with the cemetery issues?
What is it with Philly and dead people?

[I Drive Too Fast]

ping

[Bi-ped Carbon Unit]

Hope they didn’t get the two dead guys voting districts mixed up...

[LucyJo]

Good grief, was the gov’t running this operation???

[barker]

When my husband died we were not informed by the funeral home until 2 hours before visitation started that my husbands body was not even at the funeral home because it had not yet been released by the medical examiners office.

It was too late to cancel anything. Took an hour of screaming at people to get the body released. It arrived at the funeral home during visitation.

Since it was a closed casket very few of us knew it was empty. I felt like such a fraud because people came to pay respects and were praying over the empty casket. I still haven’t told my mother.

The funeral home wanted us to have a mock visitation and possibly a mock funeral the next day with a private funeral whenever the body was released.

[shotdog]

A tragic undertaking.

[backhoe]

Years ago, I was on my way to Statesboro to visit a friend, and spyed a line of headlights coming up behind ( down South, the only thing that could be is a funeral procession ) and following the custom of that faraway day, pulled over, stood at attention, hand over heart, and waited for it to pass on by... We all did such things then, and I wasn’t alone... but...

I noticed the hearse was missing.

Well, the line of family and mourners went by, I saddled up and headed out... a few minutes later I hear the wail of a siren, and here comes the hearse, red gumball machine ( beacon ) flashing, doing at least a hundred miles an hour with that big Cadillac V-8 unspooling, and as they blurred by me I thought

“Bet his Dad told him he was so slow he’d be late to his own funeral...