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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Rohrlich

A NYC funeral home reportedly sent a grandmother’s body to the wrong country. Her family didn’t know for two weeks

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A New York City funeral home that has come under fire by regulators for, among other things, losing bodies, presenting caskets for viewing with other people’s bodies inside, and giving decedents cremation urns that may or may not contain the ashes of their loved ones, now stands accused of mistakenly sending a woman’s corpse to the wrong country - where it sat mouldering for more than two weeks as the desperate family searched for answers.

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