Training and Updates for the Mortuary Transport Service Industry
Here’s a story about a man who was carried to the morgue en masse with a bunch of other dead bodies, and woke up thirsty.
I was sometimes worried that something like this would happen to me, a body not really being dead when I picked it up and transported it. One of the funeral homes [...] Read more »
Here’s a twist on losing a body. A funeral home (which I never ended up working for) is called, but their phone# is “hijacked” and another funeral home around the corner (which I never ended up working for either) ends up having the body, and embalms it without authorization!
Yes I know it’s not the first [...] Read more »
Here’s a real letter I just received about the experience from using a removal service for both the house call and delivery to the cemetery. This may be preaching to the choir for most who read this, but every removal has to leave a good impression. We mess up accidentally enough times without letting poor [...] Read more »
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Not to make less of an impact of this story, but it is the same as a lot of indigent cases across the country.
Our society doesn’t track the importance of family, friends and loved ones for the times when someone dies unexpectedly away from home. We rely on the state to take care [...] Read more »
The following story is a perfect example of why it’s important to have a paper trail starting from where the body was picked up. While the reason the family believes they don’t have their fathers’ remains is based on a complaint from an employee, this should never happen any any state. The case of the [...] Read more »