Wrong man cremated at Texas funeral home

[tomm2thumbs]

HOUSTON (AP) -- A funeral home that handles indigent burials apparently cremated the body of a man whose family had requested a viewing and sent a woman's body to be embalmed instead, prompting an investigation.

The mix-up was discovered after a mortuary school contacted Carnes Funeral Home to ask permission to embalm a woman's body who was supposed to be cremated. Employees at the funeral home thought the woman's body had been cremated, but checked their records and realized they had sent her body to Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service.

"It's beyond me how you could mix up a male and a female," Turkel said. He planned to thoroughly review the funeral home's policies and procedures.

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[madaboutharry]

1. That is horrible.

This kind of thing is so upsetting because it shows that people just don't care.

[MADem]

2. Good grief. A TEXAS funeral home.... I seem to recall a Bushco scandal about those... nt

[DS1]

4. I think that was an East Coast company

Perhaps Georgia or one of the Carolinas. I remember the bodies being dumped in one of those states

[MADem]

5. No, no, no. I am not talking about that. I am talking about this:

Funeralgate, it was called.

http://www.bushwatch.com/gravedigger.htm

[rurallib]

7. I see the name Harry Whittington in the article. Is that the guy that Cheney

shot in the face? And had to apologize for getting his face in the way?

[Blue Diadem]

3. Some people have jobs they really shouldn't have.

There is no excuse for that type of mistake.

[TahitiNut]

6. Well, at least they were both dead. Imagine mixing up a living and dead body?

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