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Care Worker Took Picture of Dead Woman in Coffin

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 19 July 2007
A Care worker has been suspended following allegations she took a photograph of a dead woman in a coffin.The employee was said to have used a mobile phone to take the picture while the body lay in an open casket. She has been relieved of her duties at the council-run Kingswood Court sheltered housing complex on Invercauld Road in Aberdeen's Mastrick area while the alleged incident is investigated. It is understood the photograph was taken last week, not at the complex, but possibly at a funeral parlour or the city's crematorium. A council source said the reasons behind the alleged incident were not known but there did not appear to be any "sinister motive". It is believed the dead woman's family are aware of the alleged incident. An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: "A female member of staff at Kingswood Court has been suspended in connection with an alleged incident while it is investigated. It would be inappropriate to comment further." Today police had not been informed as the council staff were in the early stages of the investigation. When our reporter visited the complex, which includes flats and bungalows, she was asked by an on-site facilities co-ordinator to leave the premises. Neighbours today expressed their shock and concern that somebody would do such a "sick" thing. Auxiliary nurse and former care worker Linda Rose, 50, of Mastrick, said: "As a care worker confidentiality and dignity must be respected. "The family must be absolutely devastated. It is bad enough a death in the family without having to deal with this." And a 69-year-old man who lives nearby and asked not to be named, said: "I'm shocked to hear someone who works with vulnerable people is under investigation for such a thing. "Why would anyone do a thing like that? It's absolute disrespect to the dead."

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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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