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Family upset with Wilmington mortuary PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
Feb 14, 2006

WILMINGTON -- A family is upset with a Wilmington mortuary. They paid Jordan Funeral home $4,000 to handle their mother's burial but say when they couldn't come up with any more money funeral directors put their mother's body and casket out in the parking lot to be picked up. Hyesha Perrett just lost her mother, 55-year-old Patricia McClain.

"It was hard to go there last night and to see my mother out there like that in the night and in the cold," Ms. Perrett said.

It's an emotional hardship, and a financial one. The family just signed a $6,500 contract with Jordan Funeral Home but ran out of money before the arrangements were complete.

An attorney for the funeral home said there's a lot more to the story. He says the family found a cheaper deal and tried to get a refund from Jordan Funeral Home after morticians had gone to a lot of expense preparing the body.

Jordan Funeral Home agreed to release the body to a competing mortuary for burial but they're keeping the $4,000 to cover the cost of the casket, the embalming fee and the cost of retrieving Patricia's body from Georgia.

Independent attorneys we talked to think that's fair.

Attorney Thom Goolsby said, "The fact of the matter is that funeral homes are a business. It's a contract and people expect to be paid at the end of the day."

Regardless of who's right or who's wrong, it's a tragic situation for Hyesha and her family. Experts recommend saving for funerals in advance and shopping around before it's time to bury a loved one.

The family has asked us to mention that Ms. McClain will be buried at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Warner's Temple on Nixon Street in Wilmington.

For more information visit:

www.directcasket.com/other/faqquestions.htm


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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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