Something amiss with the writing of this article.
I understand the entire process described in the article, except why in the world was a backhoe used to lower a casket, if it wasn’t tremendously oversized?
Next, why did the cemetery admit to a lessor wrongdoing, but not the whole deal? Interesting, didn’t they think curiosity would possibly end up in a disinterment and discovery? The light bulb isn’t too bright, here apparently.
Finally, the funeral home denies any wrongdoing? I thought it was the cemetery who dropped the body. Why would the funeral home find it necessary to chime in here at all? And where it may not be law in Kentucky, or even funeral association rules; did the funeral home stay for the lowering or were they already gone? I was trained to consider the deceased my responsibility until the casket was no longer accessable. We always took that to mean after the lid was on the vault and the first load of dirt on it. So my question is: Was the funeral director present during the lowering of this casket? My guess is apparenly not, or someone would have called to own up to this. If so, then there is a lot of blame to go around. Either way, this was all avoidable and unnecessary, and people were harmed by it. Another black eye on the profession.
Yes, it’s unfortunate. Yes the cemetery and funeral director should be ashamed and chastised. However, the value of the claim for emotional trauma should be minimal. The relatives didn’t witness the incident and regardless of how “meticulous” the old lady was in life, she was dead and will eventually decompose.
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Something amiss with the writing of this article.
I understand the entire process described in the article, except why in the world was a backhoe used to lower a casket, if it wasn’t tremendously oversized?
Next, why did the cemetery admit to a lessor wrongdoing, but not the whole deal? Interesting, didn’t they think curiosity would possibly end up in a disinterment and discovery? The light bulb isn’t too bright, here apparently.
Finally, the funeral home denies any wrongdoing? I thought it was the cemetery who dropped the body. Why would the funeral home find it necessary to chime in here at all? And where it may not be law in Kentucky, or even funeral association rules; did the funeral home stay for the lowering or were they already gone? I was trained to consider the deceased my responsibility until the casket was no longer accessable. We always took that to mean after the lid was on the vault and the first load of dirt on it. So my question is: Was the funeral director present during the lowering of this casket? My guess is apparenly not, or someone would have called to own up to this. If so, then there is a lot of blame to go around. Either way, this was all avoidable and unnecessary, and people were harmed by it. Another black eye on the profession.
Yes, it’s unfortunate. Yes the cemetery and funeral director should be ashamed and chastised. However, the value of the claim for emotional trauma should be minimal. The relatives didn’t witness the incident and regardless of how “meticulous” the old lady was in life, she was dead and will eventually decompose.