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As Coronavirus Hits Memorial Services, U.S. Funeral Homes Struggle to Adapt

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. funeral homes are adapting their businesses to social distancing and the rapidly spreading coronavirus. Like companies across the United States, funeral homes and mortuaries are limiting contact with customers in order to avoid spreading the highly …

Colorado Funeral Home Operators Charged With Selling Bodies

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Federal authorities arrested the operators of a Colorado funeral home accused of selling body parts or entire bodies without the consent of families. Megan Hess, 43, and her mother, 66-year-old Shirley Koch, were arrested Tuesday and …