Decision Over Faulty Casket Upsets Son

Courier & Press ^ | June 21, 2005

[deadeyedawg]

It really wasn't the money," Sweeney said.

Then why sue? They got the funeral for free.

[Jaded]

It was a closed casket from the beginning?

[Corin Stormhands]

"It's not being buried with dignity. It took away the whole mood. I don't remember anything about the burial service other than staring at the ground," Sweeney said.

When my Dad died, I'm not sure we were worried about the "mood." And I don't remember anything about the burial service other than staring at the ground.

The funeral home took care of it as best they could.

This isn't about dignity. It's about cash.

[Zeppelin]

I felt for the family, until I got to the part where they tried to sue the funeral home. That's ridiculous. "It wasnt about the money." So why not accept the free funeral and the $3000 compensation? We want $250,000 each!

As traumatic as the experience was, sh*t happens. No amount of money is going to wipe away the fact that it happened. But maybe that new luxury car or lakehouse will, eh?

[socal_parrot]

"I heard my older sister scream like somebody had run a knife into her."

Disturbing he knows what that sounds like.

[MortMan]

It was a closed casket from the beginning?

All the way from the top, but not quite from the bottom, it seems.

[Dallas59]

Bury me in pine box. No lace, no silk no nothing.

[RGSpincich]

Aurora Casket Co. of Aurora, Ind., which supplied the casket to the Taylor Raymond Spear Funeral Home, replaced the damaged one with a more expensive model. And Spear's funeral home did not charge the family for any of the $6,500 funeral.

They've done enough. This family needs to get a life. Pun intended.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Aurora Casket Co. of Aurora, Ind., which supplied the casket to the Taylor Raymond Spear Funeral Home, replaced the damaged one with a more expensive model. And Spear's funeral home did not charge the family for any of the $6,500 funeral.

This is a plain and simple negligence case, nothing more. Replacing the defective casket is really all that was required, having the funeral fees waived is over and above in terms of compensation IMO.

Back in my construction days our crew installed kitchen cabinets. The homeowner came home and informed us that the cabinets were the wrong color. We ordered new ones and replaced the ones we had already installed. When the job was done she refused to pay because the innitial shock of seeing the wrong cabinets caused her so much distress that she believed we should be thankful that she wasn't sueing us. We sued her, won triple damages for breach of contract and then settled for the original contract amount.

These people are nothing but scum and they're everywhere.

[proudofthesouth]

I'm seriously considering donating my body to a body farm.

[newgeezer]

Then why sue? They got the funeral for free.

Hey, ambulance-chasing shysters need to eat, too.

[Fido969]

I then asked a wonderful bunch of pallbearers to help me. I held the top shell of the casket as they brought the bottom up, and we took it back, almost completely back into the funeral coach."

Slick!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I'm sure this guy's father didn't feel a thing...

[jude24]

Don't kmow. This could be conisdered negligent infliction of emotion distress, and might get somewhere.

Just another reason Jude24 will not consider personal injury law.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bury me in pine box.

Cremate me in a cardboard carton. Spend the money you saved on one helluva party.

[reagan_fanatic]

The casket companies offered the family members a settlement of $3,000 each, Sweeney said. They rejected that offer and proposed instead $250,000 for each sibling, for a total of $1 million

This is pathetic. I buried my Dad two years ago, and I can see how traumatic such a thing could be, HOWEVER, I think the funeral home and the casket mfr. offered a reasonable settlement. This is just pure, naked greed on the part of the family, and does a disservice to the memory of their Father.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

This is silly. It's not worth any money and some of the family and friends are probably telling jokes about it.

[WKB]

I guess the old man was just dying to get outta that box.

[stylecouncilor]

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