REPORT: DECOMPOSING BODY FOUND AT ARKANSAS FUNERAL HOME

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An inspection of an Arkansas funeral home that has since been suspended found bodies stacked in a cooler packed beyond capacity and other bodies that hadn't been embalmed lying out in the open, the inspector wrote.

Leslie Stokes told the Arkansas Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors that one of the bodies she came across during her Jan. 12 inspection of Arkansas Funeral Care in Jacksonville was "half covered in a bed sheet that was saturated in bodily fluids that had seeped from the body," the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported ( http://bit.ly/1JhhIot ). When she returned the next day, the body was still there, "half wrapped in a soiled sheet, unrefrigerated," she wrote.

The board suspended the licenses of the funeral home and its manager, LeRoy Wood, during an emergency hearing Wednesday.

A woman who answered the funeral home's phone Friday said she couldn't take a message for Wood asking for his response to the suspension of his license and allegations against him. In a statement to the board, Wood said: "We have the utmost respect, care and reverence for everyone's loved one we are privileged to serve."

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[TwilightGardener]

1. I have to admit, my initial reaction to the headline was a confused shrug.

[jberryhill]

9. Ditto

Like, "Man Found Dead At Cemetery".

[ColesCountyDem]

2. As the grandson of funeral directors, I am apalled!

I know and have known hundreds of funeral directors, all of whom were honest, ethical people. The cretins referred to in the article are to be despised, and properly so.

[Turbineguy]

3. That's why we vote for republicans

so we don't get these fucking inspections!

[onethatcares]

7. just privatize them

that'll work really well.

[jberryhill]

4. Customers were dying to get in

[Orrex]

5. You shouldn't joke about such a grave matter.

[jberryhill]

8. Every funeral begins with fun

[benz380]

11. It's the last place you'll get laid.

[Zambero]

12. In the dead center of town no less

[AwakeAtLast]

15. In front of an audience.

[Princess Turandot]

13. They deserve a stiff penalty nt

[Enrique]

22. stop it

you're killing me!

[cindyperry]

6. OMg that is horrid

everyone has had a loved one die and have to be taken to a funeral home it is the ultimate disrespect for this to take place

[DeSwiss]

10. K&R

- Website is still up. I hope they're not taking orders.

[center]Complete Church Funeral Plan With Casket - $2,490.00
Complete Graveside Funeral Plan With Casket - $1,975.00[/center]

I wonder how much ''without'' casket.......

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. About 5 years ago, there was a similar scandal in a Chicago suburb

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_Oak_Cemetery#Burr_Oak_Scandal

[Sunlei]

16. cheap prices, probably need another freezer if they wait for payment before they do anything.

[vankuria]

17. How can folks make jokes?

In my religion the deceased body is considered sacred and is supposed to be prepared for burial with the utmost care. What if it was a member of your family?

This funeral home should be closed down.

[question everything]

18. Oh, how gross. And all CAPS! (nt)

[JCMach1]

20. There was horrible case like this in Jacksonville, FL years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_Funeral_Home_scandal

The scandal first came to light June 7, 1988, when a number of decomposing bodies were found inside the funeral home.[1] A total of 36 bodies, including one fetus, and three sets of body parts were uncovered inside the building.[2][3] Most of the corpses were stacked in a closet, and some had been in the building for as long as a decade.[1]...

[w8liftinglady]

21. we had the same thing happen in Ft Worth

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/16/bodies-found-unattended-funeral-home/12721679/

FORT WORTH, Texas — The owners of a funeral home, where eight bodies were found unattended Tuesday, say a misunderstanding led police to search the business.

The owner of the building where Johnson Family Mortuary operates said he told the owners to vacate about two weeks ago. The landlord went to the building, which has no refrigerated storage, Tuesday and found eight bodies inside but no employees.

The landlord called police, who obtained a search warrant and located the bodies, "aged from infant to adult, were found in the building in varying stages of decomposition, some quite advanced," according to Fort Worth Police spokesman Raymond Bush.