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Search results for "cemetaries" ...
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A price on mourning
The Philadelphia Inquirer does a five-part series on the funeral industry and finds "15 years after passage of the first federal Funeral Rule, planning a funeral can be just as difficult, just as costly, just as confusing as ever."
Tags: death industry; funerals; funeral costs; burial costs; funeral business; federal regulations; cemetaries
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Burial in Arlington: The story of Larry Lawrence
WJLA breaks one of the major news stories of 1997: the controversy over Arlington National Cemetary. WJLA reports that the Clinton Administration had granted a record number of waivers to individuals who did not qualify for burial in the nation's most sacred cemetary.
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Buried secrets
KSTP-TV finds dead bodies, often infants, are secretly and illegally dug up and moved. All of the cemetaries involved are owned and operated by Service Corporation International, a multi-billion dollar corporation and the largest funeral service provider in the world.
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Fraud in the Funeral Industry
An expose of funding practice in the funeral business showed that more than $50 million has been stolen across the country by operators running "preneed" funeral arrangements. (September/October 1995)
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Stamford (Conn.) Advocate reveals that a local cemetary had acted improperly in several ways, mislocating bodies, overcharging for veterans' markers and burying bodies in a way that violated health codes all because it had run out of room but continued to hold internments; the series prompted a state investigation, August - December 1993.
Tags: CT Carella 24 pages