The mere idea that there are people who would take advantage of a mourning family is enough to make most people sick. Unfortunately, cemetery and funeral home fraud are increasingly common. No matter where in…
Having to plan a loved one’s funeral after their unexpected death is agonizing. In the midst of dealing with your own grief, you have to maintain enough composure to ensure that the funeral service and…
No matter how much of a planner you may be, there’s a good chance that you haven’t spent a lot of time on making advance funeral arrangements. For most people, the mere idea of making…
The pain caused by cremation errors is hard to describe. Families who’ve gone through it describe it as having to experience grief twice: first, they lose their loved one to death, and then they’re robbed…
For five years, the National Funeral Directors Association has conducted an annual Consumer Awareness and Preferences Study. This year, the findings have indicated that customers understand the importance of preplanning a funeral but don’t make…
It’s hard to manage to target more vulnerable groups than the elderly, mentally disabled and nuns, but fraud schemers have set their target on the dead and their emotional families. Funeral fraud is commonly thought…
An unidentified body was found in a plot as the family of a woman tried to lay her to rest at Shalom Memorial Park in Huntingdon Valley this past June. The son of the deceased…