Buried someone else instead of father, daughters sue the funeral company for 5 billion
New York: Whatever may be the country, mistakes happen everywhere, but when the mistakes are caught then the matter gets complicated. One such case has come to the fore in America, where two sisters have sued a funeral home (a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families) for about $60 million i.e. about Rs.5 billion. Stacy Holzman and Megan Jenner have accused 'Funeral and Cremation Service' and 'Star of David Chappelle' of messing up their late father's funeral.
He claims that the funeral service provider company buried the body of another person instead of his father. In the lawsuit filed in New York, Holzman and the Jenner sisters say Fletcher Funeral and Cremation Service mistakenly placed the body of a stranger in the burial clothes of their late father, Clifford Jenner. The sisters alleged that Fletcher Funerals then sent the wrong body to the Star of David Memorial Chapel in West Babylon. The mistake meant the woman's late father was left alone in the mortuary and was not buried according to Jewish tradition.
Suspicion deepened due to the disappearance of the beard and mustache of the dead body
According to the sisters, when they tried to highlight the issue, Star of David Chapel officials insisted that the body was that of their father. The Star of David told People.com that the family had confirmed the identity of the deceased at the cemetery before the burial. The matter came to light when Stacey, one of the two sisters, got suspicious after seeing the dead body, because the mustache was missing. While his father had a moustache. When Stacey questioned where the facial hair was, the funeral director explained that beards and mustaches are removed prior to burial.
The company accepted the matter of disturbance in the funeral
But Stacey's suspicion deepened when she saw a post-mortem mark on the head of the deceased, while her father's post-mortem was not done at all. She kept expressing her doubts time and again, but the star of David Chappell dismissed her doubts outright. Three weeks after the cremation was completed, Fletcher Funeral & Cremation Service notified the Clifford family that there had been an error. The last rites of the daughters' late father were later completed in Jacksonville, Florida.
