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I have heard of devious ways to make money before, but, this takes the cake! I lived in Chicago in the late 70's and early 80's. I have many relatives still there, although those who died had the good sense to be buried elsewhere. There were cases of funeral homes reselling caskets. They would sell expensive caskets to grieving family members, display the casket at the funeral, then put the body in a cheap casket (or no casket at all) and bury it. Once buried it would never be discovered.
One has to ask, did the families ever visit the gravesites of the loved ones they grieve over now? This shit went on for four years? They were only discovered after someone from the inside snitched, probably because they failed to get a cut. Did the families ever go to the cemetery on special occasions and lay flowers or pray?
I think expensive burials should become a thing of the past. Cemeteries take up lots of space, are often vandalized, seldom visited, and expensive to maintain. Cremation should be the law. It is least expensive, there is no plot or cemetery to maintain and it is space efficient.
The employees who did this were only pursuing the American Dream. Hell, $300,000 in four years for four associates works out to a nice chunk of change. Not to shabby for a gravedigger. Sure they belong in prison and will probably burn in hell, but, there is sure to be a movie of the week and book deal for somebody here. The dead never knew what happened and the living didn't care. At least they weren't selling drugs to the living or shooting people, making them dead.
The moral of the story is, Either visit your dead relatives or dig them up.
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