[Morgana]

Someone needs their butt kicked over this.

[alexander_busek]

Read about this elsewhere. The reporting is maddeningly vague on essential details, but I gather that the family is, ultimately, at fault.

"You gets what you pays for."

Regards,

[Drago]

Pay for the coffin now and collect the life insurance payout when you can.

$499.(pine) - $1395. (Veteran - steel)
http://www.casketsbydesign.com/pine-caskets.html
http://www.bestpricecaskets.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BPC&Product_Code=3536-veteran-military-casket

[imardmd1]

Not much different than a burial at sea, pardon the reality of it. Will a box make a difference?

[pepsionice]

Coffins are not a free deal. The family needed to come up with a payment...they didn’t do it. You could go for some cheapo $700 deal and the family wasn’t willing to go and do that. So this was the only way to handle the visitation situation in the end. I’m willing to bet that the flag ‘solution’ has been used in the past.

[Thumper1960]

This is why I have requested I be dumped in a deep forest and be food for nature.

[Born to Conserve]

This shame is on the family. They are responsible for this Vet’s burial. No one else.

[bethelgrad]

I’m guessing there are laws against reusable coffins

[BykrBayb]

You can rent a casket for the viewing. You can purchase a previously rented casket for the burial, at a reduced price.

The only problem I see with this viewing is that they didn’t wrap a skirt around the gurney to conceal the legs. I don’t see anything disrespectful about it. The infighting among family is disrespectful though.

[Fantasywriter]

From the other thread on the same subject:

Under the photo on the article:

This Is What Heritage Funeral Home Did To This United States Veteran. Heritage Was Told By Insurance Company That There Check Would Be There Tomorrow. They Had To Receive The Death Certificate First before Releasing The Check. An They Over Nighted The Checked To Them. But They Still Refused To Allow Him To Be Put In A casket.

[48th SPS Crusader]

Sorry but this was disgusting and shameful. Could have been handle a whole lot better then it was.

[Trumpet 1]

That section of Ga./Tenn. border is not exactly up scale Ritz. It looks like the funeral home was following procedures. And the family was a bunch of cheap skates. And Catoosa county is sort of a cheap skate area. Sometimes poor people will try to game the system. The so called sympathy vote. Mountains over molehills. Molehills over ant piles. Calling Barney Fife. There is injustice here.

[4yearlurker]

My dad was a WW2 vet. He died alone in a little trailer just north of Phoenix in 1983. I am the youngest of four brothers. Someone from the Phoenix PD contacted my brother in New Jersey and told us he was found dead. We all flew out from Jersey. In the funeral home we all sat at a table and asked if we could view the body. We were told the body had to be washed and it all would cost. My pop told me more than once he wanted to be cremated and spread in the desert. We told the funeral director this. He said Alright 300 dollars for a cremation and a urn. We agreed and paid in cash and we had the ashes the next day. My oldest brother couldn't take it and flew back to Jersey. The three of us went out by Lake Pleasant and threw his ashes high in the breeze by the hand full.The family probably had other options.