Problems with the funeral home
As I wrote earlier, W. never recovered from having his second leg cut off, and died on February 26th. His funeral took place several days later.
Despite providing the funeral home with a written draft of the obituary, the obituary was riddled with errors. But that wasn’t all. Only after the service was over and it was time to view the body did the funeral home get around to telling the next of kin they could not bury the body that day. According to them, the doctor had neglected to sign the death certificate. They would take care of it the next day, they promised. Nothing happened the next day, nor the next. Finally, on Tuesday the burial took place, 5 days after the funeral.
It was all a lie. The folks at the cemetery informed the family that even without a signed death certificate, the burial could have taken place as scheduled. It turns out that the funeral home had called them on the day of the funeral to say that the family had changed their minds.
I am baffled by this. What reason could they have for delaying the burial? It couldn’t have been financial, since the family had paid cash to the funeral home for an inexpensive package, and had paid the cemetery separately with a cashier’s check. If anyone out there has suffered similar problems, I would be interested in hearing what they have to say.
