Posted on 10/22/2023 2:44:34 AM PDT by Libloather
Families in Colorado may have received fake ashes from a funeral home where nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered this month, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The facility may have also fabricated cremation records, evidence suggests.
Families who took the remains of their loved ones to Return to Nature Funeral Home, located on Werner Road in Penrose, fear their relatives weren’t actually cremated and could still be among the unidentified corpses. Authorities found the bodies and began an investigation on October 3, after receiving a report of an "abhorrent smell" emanating from the facility.
"My mom’s last wish was for her remains to be scattered in a place she loved, not rotting away in a building," Tanya Wilson, who believes the ashes she spread in Hawaii in August were fake, told the Associated Press. "Any peace that we had, thinking that we honored her wishes, you know, was just completely ripped away from us."
Death certificates provided to Wilson's family by Return to Nature reportedly stated that their loved ones’ remains had been handled by one of two crematories, but those businesses told the AP that they had not performed cremations for Return to Nature on the dates indicated.
According to four death certificates viewed by the AP, a crematory owned by Wilbert Funeral Services was listed as having done the cremations of the bodies. However, the deaths came at least five months after the company stopped doing cremations for Return to Nature Funeral Home last November.
Lisa Epps, attorney for Wilbert, said that members of at least 10 families told the company that they had death certificates from after November.
Roselawn Funeral Home in Pueblo, Colorado, was a second crematory listed on a 2021 death certificate from Return to Nature.
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Ash Alert!!!
That probably happens far more frequently than the general public wants to believe. Even with that room for doubt, I would be fine with cremation for myself when the time comes.
We all have our personal feelings about such topics.
My father was cremated. The ashes were placed in four different vases and distributed to the four of his children.
I knew better to say something back then, when feelings were still raw, but I didn’t really want my own small vases of his ashes.
I had great love and respect for my dad, and he was basically a nice guy on top of it, but no, the idea of keeping some physical essence of him as dry grey ashes in a little piece of pottery was never appealing to me.
But that’s a conversation I will probably never have with my two older siblings. Somethings are better left unsaid.
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This happens with wedding gowns. A bride will trust a dry cleaner to properly store her gown in blue paper and in a box (not to be opened until needed) only to discover 25 years later when her daughter is to wear it that the box contains rags or whatever.
Agree.
If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then we give you a handful of the ashes, which you can pretend were hers.
You just don’t know what’s in that urn.
If it was just a dog or a cat of mine, I’d want to notify the Better Business Bureau of the ashholes at Return To Nature, demand a full refund, and if I had to take them to small claims court, I would. However, I’m more than likely to find a nice little spot for burial in the yard or woods and call it a day.
“Well I do feel a bit peckish.”
*groan*
Journalist truly has no professionalism left. They wouldn’t be bags of “dry concrete.” They would be bags of dry cement.
Fake ashes have been sprinkled all over Colorado’s mountains and “favorite S’mores camping spots”.
I remember something like this happening a few years back in which they found a funeral home with stashed bodies. The crematorium was not working so the families were given a box with a scoop of powdered cement in it as the “ashes.”
Montrose (CO) Funeral Homes Selling Body Parts
This confirms a theory I’ve always had.
Ashes are ashes. Your loved one, some stranger, some pet that was cremated, last weeks barbecue, etc.
How you gonna know? Besides - burning a body like this borders on desecration
I knew better to say something back then, when feelings were still raw, but I didn’t really want my own small vases of his ashes.
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When my wife passed away five years ago, two of her relatives asked if they could get a vial of her ashes. I thought that was a grotesque request and still do but I diplomatically turned them down
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