Hull funeral home under investigation...

[chris8910]

Funeral directors are scandalous. This is not the first and it won’t be the last of this type of story.
They rob people at their most vulnerable point in their lives.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Funeral directors are scandalous. This is not the first and it won’t be the last of this type of story.
They rob people at their most vulnerable point in their lives.

That’s not fair. Some funeral directors do this. Most do not.

This particular scam is most likely a Direct Funeral scam where you pay peanuts for your loved one to be cremated wherever has the spare capacity to cremate extra bodies. The funeral directors take the money, but don’t pay for the bodies to be cremated.

It’s either complete morons not thinking through what they are doing and had no idea what to do with the bodies, or part of a larger scale sinister operation where loads more bodies have already been disposed of illegally.

My money would be on the former and they’ve been found out when their freezers filled to capacity.

 

[mackenzie]

That’s not fair. Some funeral directors do this. Most do not.

This particular scam is most likely a Direct Funeral scam where you pay peanuts for your loved one to be cremated wherever has the spare capacity to cremate extra bodies. The funeral directors take the money, but don’t pay for the bodies to be cremated.

It’s either complete morons not thinking through what they are doing and had no idea what to do with the bodies, or part of a larger scale sinister operation where loads more bodies have already been disposed of illegally.

My money would be on the former and they’ve been found out when their freezers filled to capacity.

Yes, one woman has said she never received her father's ashes after he died.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Remember one of these in the Tennessee, years ago. Didn't they find the bodies (100s) piled up in the back lot, or something like that ?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yes, one woman has said she never received her father's ashes after he died.

That’s an oversight from said “morons”. None of us know for sure that we receive the correct ashes. As long as we get what we’re expecting, no one would ever question whether they were the correct ashes.

I’ve spoken with a couple of funeral director businesses this week and they were both baffled at how they thought they could get away with it for any period of time and for a few grand, they said it really made no sense.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Direct cremation fees or "pure cremation" fees only amount to around £400, so not a great money saving scheme, when you consider your bodies are stacking up fast with nowhere to dispose of them?

 

[halfmist]

When the news broke yesterday I did a search on the company’s Accounts. It’s about to be struck off. The 2021 and the 2022 balance sheets are exactly the same which looks to me as though they have just made the figures up without employing an Accountant

 

[mackenzie]

Direct cremation fees or "pure cremation" fees only amount to around £400, so not a great money saving scheme, when you consider your bodies are stacking up fast with nowhere to dispose of them?

Yeah, it sounds bizarre to be honest.
They did remove over 30 bodies though.

 

[threespires]

Most people assume that something as important as the funeral services industry must always have had good regulation and oversight. Somewhat incredibly it's never really had any at all, until very recently and even now the newly instituted regulatory body isn't yet fully operational. Prior to the recent changes it was pretty much the wild west and it will take time to get it to the level needed. When you consider it's the ultimate 'distress purchase', that it has been left to its own devices is quite shocking. I did some work in the sector a few years back and it was very interesting. My experience was that it was full of people on the ground who were very dedicated and took great care of the deceased and their families but given the lack of regulation, too many senior managers in the sector were extremely complacent and had done little to nothing to offer better services or value for decades and decades on end.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Crematoria staff follow their own strict codes of conduct regarding the cremation of human remains, so the bereaved will be as sure as can be that they are receiveving the cremated remains of their loved ones.

Attention to detail at funeral parlours regarding the storage and labeling of cremated remains awaiting delivery/collection is of utmost importance.

The utmost care shall be taken to ensure that the Cremated Remains/Ashes, following their removal from the cremator, shall be kept separate and suitably identified. The Cremated Remains/Ashes shall be placed in a separate container awaiting final disposal. If the Cremated Remains/Ashes are to be disposed of in a Garden of Remembrance, this shall be conducted with reverence and respect. Cremated Remains/Ashes to be conveyed by a carrier service should be placed in a suitably labelled robust container and dealt with according to recommendations laid down by the Federation of Burial and Cremation.