Va funeral home accused of atrocious conditions (Funeralgate)

[Ian David]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A funeral home that helps handle veterans awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery left corpses in an unrefrigerated garage, hallways and on makeshift gurneys, according to a former embalmer who has given his photographs and notes to authorities, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

"It was disturbing and disrespectful and unethical," said Steven Napper, a retired Maryland trooper who worked at the funeral home for nine months. "I never could have imagined what I saw there or the things we were asked to do."

Napper said he saw as many as 200 corpses not properly cared for while working at National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Va., from May until he quit in February. National Funeral Home also embalms and stores bodies for four other funeral homes in the D.C. region that are all part of Houston-based Service Corporation International, the world's largest funeral services conglomerate.

The Post reported that Napper's documentation as well as the observations of three other employees and a grieving son have sparked an investigation by the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. The newspaper also reported that several people said a board investigator had interviewed them in recent weeks.

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See also:

Bush-Connected Company That Fed Jewish Corpses to Wild Pigs Now Defiling U.S. War Dead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5400477&mesg_id=5400477

[Blue_Tires]

1. tragic....

[PDJane]

2. Tragic, yes, but corrupt as hell.

Is there anything the Bush administration touched that has not been totally corrupted? In this case, the rot starts at the head. How many decades will it take to fix the depredations of the last 30 years on the US?

[47of74]

3. Disgusting

It's disgusting to see this still going on. What needs to be done is for the government to smash SCI, break it up, and put the people who do these sorts of things into prison for a very long time.

[Imagine My Surprise]

4. And you can always spot an SCI-owned funeral home by their absurb logo:

It says "Dignity" with a black circle around it. I've been harping about these people for years, but most people still don't get it.

[Delphinus]

6. Ooh, I did not know that.

Good information - thank you.

[nomorenomore08]

5. Who gives a shit? They're dead anyway!

:sarcasm: (to the Nth degree)

[ardvark]

7. of all the things that can go bad

there's nothing nastier than a funeral home