They discovered the mismanagement by the smell. Apparently people were given fake ashes

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This is way more common than you would think/hope. Not like it’s a large proportion of funeral homes or crematoriums doing it, but even 0.1% is a lot of bodies. Especially if it takes years for them to get caught.

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        1 year ago

        Not other than seeing stories like this pop up every few years ever since the first time a local story like this caught my attention, 20+ years ago. You can find many similar stories through Google.

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          That doesn’t make it common. As it turns out, may of these stories are likely to make the news as they are unusual. I haven’t heard of anything like this happening before but I’m sure its not unique