Dead Gaijins

[Cyka UchuuJin]

AirHearse might be my new favourite website. Just the name alone is gold.

I noticed that Miss Haruna and Kenji are not on the site though.

[Russell]

Family sues funeral parlour for ‘swapping bodies' and 'attempting to convince family people look different in death’

A distraught family are suing a funeral parlour after staff allegedly placed the wrong body in an open casket at a funeral, and then attempted to convince grieving relatives that “people look different in death”.

Family and friends attended Jerry Moon’s funeral in October 2013, but were met with the face of Robert Petitclerc, who was 25 years older than Mr Moon. Mr Pettitclerc had died at the same hospice on 13 October, the Seattle Pi reported.

When Mr Moon’s family told employees that they had made a mistake, the mortuary allegedly told them they were wrong and said that “people look different in death”.

This was despite the fact that Mr Moon was bald and Mr Petitclerc had a full head of hair, the family’s attorney Shawn Briggs said according to The Seattle Times.

He added that staff even argued that post-mortem hair growth is a phenomenon.

Mr Moon’s family said they were confronted with further distress when the Kelso funeral home cremated his body – despite his explicit religious requests that he wanted to be buried in Chehalis, a small city located 90 miles south of Seattle.

"He was afraid of cremation," Briggs said according to Seattle Pi, adding: "He had religious beliefs that were inconsistent with cremation."

While the original mistake was made at the Dahl McVicker Funeral Home which picked up the men’s bodies, the family is now claiming damages against the Brown Mortuary Service for failing to correct the inadvertent body swapping and trying to cover up its mistake.

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I especially liked this comment:

Can somebody turn this story over to Eric Idle, please?

"People look different in death”.
"Yes, but his left foot has grown back, and he's got a walrus moustache!"
"Oh, yes, sir - that'll be the Rigor Mortis. Funny how that happens, sir. You'd hardly recognise 'em, really. Mind you, one stiff is pretty much the same as another - don't you think so, sir?"
"But Uncle Des was black for Christ's sake. This man's as white as chalk. Are you telling me that he's changed skin colour since he died???"
That'll be the mortuary lighting - a bit like that funny dress, you know - everyone sees something different."
etc., etc.

[Russell]

So much for funerals in the UK.

In China, on the other hand...

[yanpa]

Body found in hunt for missing US trader

Police searching for Josh Sanchez-Maldonado, who went missing while in UK for job interview, find body near railway tracks

Police investigating the disappearance of an American trader, who went missing while in the UK for a job interview, say the body of a man has been found near railway tracks.

Josh Sanchez-Maldonado’s family travelled from the US to London to appeal for information about the 24-year-old’s whereabouts.

Officers said the body, found near train tracks between Feltham in west London and Staines in Surrey on Thursday, had not been formally identified but Sanchez-Maldonado’s family had been informed.

He flew to the UK from Japan last week and was due to travel to San Francisco via Dublin last Thursday but did not take the flight.

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[Coligny]

Staines inn da hishouse... Ayyyyyyyyyyye...