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Niles woman affected by cremation scandal

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 28 August 2004
08/27/2004 NewsCenter16 Reporter Janelle Hall Niles, MI - A settlement has been reached in the civil suit against a Georgia crematory operator, accused of scattering hundreds of corpses across the grounds of his property. The lawsuit was settled for $80 million and involved nearly 1,700 family members who say their relatives' remains were mishandled. As part of the settlement, the main building on the crematory property will be removed and no other structures will be built. Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh still faces hundreds of charges. Niles woman affected by the case A Berrien County woman is one of those nearly 1,700 people who successfully sued the owner of the Georgia crematory. Four years ago, Theresa Earl brought an urn of ashes back to her Niles home after the death of her brother. It wasn't until two years later that she discovered that those ashes weren't her brothers' ashes. In fact, he was never even cremated. He was buried in a backyard with more than 300 other bodies. Earl explains, Ã¢â‚¬Å“I still don't sleep that much at night. I probably won't. It's just horrifying.Ã¢â‚¬Â Theresa Earl entrusted her brother's body to the Georgia-based crematorium It's not her brother's death that haunts her; rather it is what happened to his body after his death that keeps Earl up at night. Ã¢â‚¬Å“They told me he was buried in a pit with 18 other people,Ã¢â‚¬Â explains Earl. The Niles woman trusted a Tennessee funeral home to hire a crematorium so she could keep her brother's ashes, but like 1,700 other people, Earl felt only feelings of disgust after learning that that was never the case; her brother was never cremated. In 2002, police discovered the owner of Tri-State Crematorium, Brent Ray Marsh, scattered 334 bodies across his property near Noble, Georiga. Says Earl in disgust, Ã¢â‚¬Å“To me, he may not have killed my brother, but he threw him out like he did.Ã¢â‚¬Â Where the case will go from here Similarly angry and deceived family members such as Earl fired back with a civil suit, and Thursday, two years later, the courts announced an $80 million settlement, spread out among over 1700 family members. When you split the $80 million settlement among 1,700 people, loved ones like Earl could end up with about $47,000 in the lawsuit. However, that's before you share the money with the rest of the family and before you count costs for lawyer fees, not to mention the fee of emotional scarring. In the end, however, Earl explains, Ã¢â‚¬Å“I really wasn't expecting anything. I am still really not,Ã¢â‚¬Â saying the only thing she really does expect is justice Ã¢â‚¬â€œ so that her departed brother may finally rest in peace. http://www.wndu.com/news/082004/news_37098.php

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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