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Funeral case nets lawyers $25 million

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 25 November 2004
More than a quarter of the judgment for improper burials will go to attorneys. By Lisa J. Huriash South Florida Sun-Sentinel November 24, 2004 FORT LAUDERDALE -- The attorneys and paralegals who landed their clients a $100 million judgment against a funeral home that improperly buried their loved ones will receive more than one-quarter of the final award. The class-action lawsuit against two Menorah Gardens cemeteries garnered national attention after the cemeteries in Broward and Palm Beach counties were accused of burying people in the wrong places, breaking open vaults to squeeze in other remains and, in some instances, tossing bones into the woods. In the order signed Nov. 9, Broward Circuit Judge J. Leonard Fleet said the 22 lawyers and paralegals are entitled to more than $25.8 million for more than 24,000 hours of work in "complex issues of law" and in such areas as "ground penetrating radar, global positioning technology, topographical surveys, probing of the grave sites, cemetery records and computer modeling to create maps and portray what lay beneath the ground." He said the plaintiff's attorneys' fight against the cemeteries' operator, Houston-based Service Corp. International, was tough, saying, "This litigation was intellectual war at every phase against well-trained, well-organized and well-financed defense counsel." Joan Light of Hollywood is a member of the class-action lawsuit. Her parents had been buried head-to-toe instead of side-by-side. While she said the attorneys' take was hefty, she said the victims would have nothing without their work. "It's a lot of money but they took the risk, they put out a lot of money all of the years, they're entitled to it," she said. "They took all the risks. I had nothing to lose." Light said she doesn't want her parents reburied since she doesn't want the site disturbed. "They were married 65 years, and I think their wishes should have been granted," she said. "In your wildest dreams you don't think things could happen like this in a cemetery. It's holy ground." http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-loccemetery24112404nov24,1,4269046.story?coll=orl-news-headlines

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.”

Kahlil Gibran

From Broken Wings , 1910