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Date Item Title
August 28, 2008 Family awarded $300,000 after casket crashes during transfer
November 07, 2007 Funeral home sued for negligence
July 18, 2007 Relatives may share autopsy settlement
May 11, 2007 Funeral home holding body hostage?
August 10, 2006 Widow sues over burial plot
August 10, 2006 Panel Finds Fault With Florida Autopsies
July 27, 2006 Pallbearer sues funeral home after falling in grave
July 24, 2006 Funeral Home Hit with Class Actions
June 20, 2006 Woman sues cemetery
June 11, 2006 Lee woman claims accusations against Naples funeral home led to her firing
April 05, 2006 Body hauled away; funeral home is sued
April 02, 2006 Heart Devices Retrieved From Crematorium
March 26, 2006 Indicted Pa. coroner known for big ego as well as big cases
March 15, 2006 Cemetery Operator
February 15, 2006 Cemetery agrees to pay fine
February 08, 2006 Funeral Business Had Prior Violations
December 15, 2005 Funeral Home Owner Indicted on Six Charges
October 14, 2005 Just did his job on bodies
September 06, 2005 Losing Urn With Ashes Costs Cemetery $812,000
August 27, 2005 Carlsbad Cemetery Owner Pleads To Charge of Disturbing Grave
July 27, 2005 Family sues cemetery after body moved
June 30, 2005 Three people charged in crematorium case
June 26, 2005 Animal Crematory Workers Charged With Theft
June 21, 2005 Decision Over Faulty Casket Upsets Son
June 17, 2005 State sues cemetery over cremations
June 16, 2005 Mortuary worker accused of robbing dead man
June 10, 2005 Quincy funeral home sued over treatment of two bodies
June 04, 2005 Dracut Funeral Home in crematory lawsuit
June 02, 2005 Lawsuit filed in federal court against New Hampshire crematorium
May 06, 2005 Funeral Homes Sued For Shutting Out Cheap Caskets
May 04, 2005 Funeral industry is hit with casket-pricing suit
April 03, 2005 Man named Death charged with stealing from cemetery
December 15, 2004 Family sues cemetery, manager
November 30, 2004 Family sues MEs office, funeral home
November 29, 2004 Widow wins suit in cremation fraud
November 11, 2004 State shuts Leesville mortuary
November 03, 2004 Funeral Director Pleads Guilty To Theft
October 18, 2004 World Trade Center families file notice of claim over `proper burial
October 05, 2004 Coroner defends self on cremation charge
September 22, 2004 Charge dropped in cremation case
September 21, 2004 Families back settlement with funeral company
September 15, 2004 Employee who stole bones pleads guilty
September 05, 2004 Complaints lead to suit for casket fraud
August 30, 2004 Familys Lawsuit Claims Relative Wasnt Embalmed Properly
August 22, 2004 Attorney general sues casket supplier
August 16, 2004 Funeral director sues Harrisburg-based cremation service
July 13, 2004 Bosque County Womans Burial Causing Controvery
July 11, 2004 ERI forgot about my dead baby
June 05, 2004 Board sets hearing in Columbus funeral home delay in cremation
May 24, 2004 Cemetery Lawsuit
 
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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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