Authorities find more bodies after initial report of 115 two weeks ago, when owners were evicted and police investigated foul odor
The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from about 115 reported when the bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.
The remains were found by authorities responding to a report of a foul odor at the Return to Nature funeral home inside a decrepit building in the small town of Penrose, Colorado.
Efforts to identify the remains began last week with help from an FBI team that gets deployed to mass casualty events like airline crashes. Fremont sheriff Allen Cooper described the scene as “horrific”.
Wtf is this thread. There’s a comment chain going wild about how to bury your own body.
Is there a Lemmy bestOf?
When you have a loved one pass away… and you get forced to pony up $10k for a basic service, cremation in a nice casket, and a pretty expensive “basic” urn for the ashes, because the funeral home won’t let you use anything cheaper like a pine box or a shroud, with the only choice being between an “eco gas” cremation in your own city vs. a $2k cheaper “non eco” one a city over… you’ll understand why people call funeral homes parasites and look for alternatives.
Just put me in a Folgers can. Just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us saps!
If they don’t allow that, then they’re descriminating against all of us Dudists!
I just had to do this. It was less than $4K for cremation, two services with funeral home staff (multi-hour, including on location at the church), and all of the guest books/cards/etc, plus announcements. I’d have to look at my paperwork for the exact amount.
They even told us to bring our own urn because it would be cheaper than anything the funeral home could provide, so we did.
I guess different countries, but that sounds more reasonable. We had to take a flash loan, when they saw my father was about the same age, they tried to upsell him to a $6K funeral insurance plan… imagine that: “so we see your wife just died, have you thought about dying yourself? Get a 40% rebate now!”
Refuse to accept the body. The local government will have to take care of it.
Checked on that, it’s a 2K€ minimum community service, they take the body, cremate, then dump the ashes into a common pit, no extras. Next of kin are still supposed to pay the 2K€ “when their economy improves” (basically if you’re earning anything above minimum wage, then you’re on the hook).
Also if your loved one dies at home, “refusing the body” is not really an option, you want the body out ASAP before it stinks the whole place (had my mom for a day, took a couple weeks to get rid of the smell).
That is why every funeral home has those big garage doors. If you don’t see it from the street just look in the back. Dialysis bodies smell the worst. Imagine rotting meat soaked in urine.
I love this comment thread. People advocating for the general public being responsible for this. Oh yes please have people randomly disappear from society buried uphill from water supplies. Screw thousands of years of civilization dealing with this problem.
Imagine rotting meat soaked in urine
You can use a pinewood casket.
Here in Spain, you “are legally allowed to use a pinewood casket or just a shroud”… at the same time as “only a funeral home is allowed to perform a cremation or burial”… and they all refuse to do businesses with you unless you also pay for a much pricier casket and some extra services.
Nice tiny loophole, ain’t it?
Hmm ok so what do Roma, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus do?
Protest. There’s a few faith-specific funeral homes, even some that offer free burials for immigrants without resources, but otherwise just protest.
Interesting.
You’re seeing that in-between moment when a wildly ignorant comment is upvoted to the top quickly but comes down slowly. It’s still hot, but the OP has been downvotes far below most corrective comments.
It’s a good chain. I want to be tossed in the ocean (when I’m dead).
Lemmites thinking anyone who provides a service is a parasitic bourgeois bastard that needs guillotining.
As with any service, everything can be “reasonably” priced. Things that people need every day have become predatory or straight price gouging. Funeral homes are one of those. If people want to have their naked bodies burned or put into the ground, they should be able to.
In theory… Let’s say I bury my loved one far away from the city. Couple months later some hiker finds an arm that an animal pulled out. Police gets involved. They blame it on the cartels… At what point do I say anything, and if I do, how much trouble am I in?
“Asking for a friend”
Of course. It goes without saying.
It depends on your jurisdiction, it’s a felony in some places.
Nobody wants to talk about the fact that this is very clearly a former Pizza Hut?
F
A funeral home contains dead bodies? THE HORROR!
Well they’re normally not rotting
Typically the front doesn’t fall off.
When does the US get labelled as third world hellhole it actually is?
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
It’s one funeral home. The US certainly has its problem, but you should relax a bit.
This is the only nursing home with piles of corpses isn’t quite the argument in favour of your country not being a shit hole you think it is.
Just ignore the rampant school shootings, the racially motivated violence of police against citizens not breaking any laws and the wannabe autocratic dictator who incited a mob to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power that your justice system seems terrified of holding accountable.
If we ignore all of these “just one thing” issues then everything is fine.
nursing home with piles of corpses
Funeral home. People tend to come already dead in there.
“I’m not dead!”
“'Ere! He says he’s not dead!”
“Well now he’s dead, you whacked him on the head”
Nursing home ≠ funeral home
Is your mind a shithole or is this just a semantics mistake?
Legitimate error on my part. Congrats on living in the greatest country in the world.
I agree that the older American generations had this whole thing where they said the US is the greatest country in the world, but as an American millenial, I certainly don’t feel that way. And I haven’t met too many Americans in my generation or younger that genuinely feel that way (granted, maybe this is cause I don’t have any MAGA friends). Those of us that don’t follow the train wreck that is Trump are very aware of our country’s deep flaws and corruptions, and like virtually every other country that has corruption, there’s little the people can do. I vote, and I encourage others to vote, but not a whole lot I can do about the rich driving this country into the ground.
I can tell you just naturally dislike Americans and think we’re all the same, but maybe consider the fact that none of us can control where we were born, and many of us don’t have the luxury of just moving out of the country. So please don’t assume that living in the country you were born and raised in automatically means that you are ok with the decisions our overlords are making for us.
Go touch grass.
Go volunteer for campaigns you care about instead of complaining online. Much more productive.
I generally volunteer during the weekend while I am not working.
You are absolutely correct about the productivity. Alas, the point of my post wasn’t to be productive.
I do too. I’m up to a thousand now.
Fair enough! Lol many of the hours of my life aren’t aimed at being productive!
Don’t you get sick of yourself?
Now why I would I go and do something like that?
That would require the US to leave NATO and become Switzerland tier neutral.
Oh, you meant the racist way people who’ve never been to the “third world” say “third world.”
Iean unaligned with allied or axis powers?
Allied or Soviet bloc powers
Lmfao, the rage!
Lol what a moron.
The dude is so dumb he doesn’t even know that Donald Trump made America great again.
