Login
Lost Password?
No account yet? Register

Welcome

Taphophilia (dot) Com...
A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.

What's at Taph?

Taphophilia Home
Thanatology Forums
Taphophile Weblinks
Taph's Article Archive
Contact Deadgirl
Donating to Taphophilia
Book Library

Deadgirl Recommends

Advertisement

Dig Deeper

Literature
Topics at Taphophilia
Deadgirl's Dictionary
Cemetery Photography
Industry News
Carved in Stone

A Taphophilia Thank You...

Taphophilia (dot) Com would not be possible without the knowledge, experience and talent of DarkestWeb. From
its conception and early development, DarkestWeb
was faced with many challenges; from inspiring and motivating, to providing guidance and direction. The continued dedication and support has produced results greater than ever expected, and for this, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.

Cemetery Snapshot

100_0271.jpg.jpg

Announcements

Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski. Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery and to browse other available titles!


Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.
Funeral director scams $3M with fake death certificates PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Saturday, 06 November 2004
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO
Staff Writer

November 4, 2004

A former Queens funeral director and his wife pleaded guilty yesterday to charges they scammed $3.1 million in life insurance payments by submitting fake death certificates to insurers.
Neil Foster Phillips II, 38, and his wife, Eloise Lyles-Phillips, 41, admitted taking part in the scheme in federal court in Brooklyn and agreed to pay back the money by selling their home in Dix Hills.

In a low voice, Neil Phillips, who had also worked for a time as a guidance counselor in the city school system, said he conspired to defraud three insurance companies -- John Hancock, New York Life and Metropolitan Life -- from 1993 through 2003. This was done, prosecutors said, by the submission of death certificates naming fictitious people or actual living people as being deceased.

Eloise Phillips admitted to taking part in one count of scheming to defraud John Hancock by mailing, in July 2003, a death certificate that named her living brother as having died.

Under terms of their plea agreements with federal prosecutors, the husband and wife face prison terms. Neil Phillips faces from 70 to 87 months in prison under sentencing guidelines. His wife faces from 33 to 41 months, said U.S. District Judge John Gleeson, who set sentencing for February 2005.

Outside court yesterday, defense attorney Joseph Slater said he would ask that Eloise Phillips not get prison because of physical abuse she suffered before she was married.

Defense attorney James DiPietro, who represents Neil Phillips, said Eloise Phillips had severe psychological problems and had tried to commit suicide. DiPietro stressed that the Phillips would be liquidating assets, including their million-dollar Dix Hills home and other properties, to repay as much of the $3.1 million as possible before they are sentenced.

Neil Phillips, who officials said was a funeral director at the J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home in Jamaica run by his parents, lost his funeral directors license earlier this year, DiPietro said. The parents were not involved in their son's wrongdoing, DiPietro said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-fune1105,0,3430906.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines
 
< Prev   Next >
[ Back ]

Taphophilia?

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

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

“Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.”

Mark Twain from A Curious D

Deadgirl's Favorites

  • Elmwood Cemetery

  • Coffin Books

  • Farber Collection
  • Pushin Daisies
  • Coffin Talk Forums

  • Lewiston,ID Projects

  • Eternal Touch Studios

  • Adipocere
  • Adimundo Forums
  • Find A Death
  • Guardians of the Soul
  • Coffin Gems
  • Stories In Stone
  • Grave Matter
  • AGS Online

    • Recently Exhumed

  • Beheading videos fascinate public
  • Tomb facts/Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
  • Death videos big sellers
  • Presidential Funerals
  • Lamont Bentley, 31
  • Webshot Photo Album -- Manila Chinese Cemetery
  • Ashes to assets, dust to diamonds
  • INSIDES OUT: Cadaver exhibit to make U.S. debut
  • Haunted Inns: Rumors of ghosts float at Southern spots
  • Death Equals Science at Body Farm
  • Hanging is widely used worldwide for execution
  • Michael Louden, 40

    • Shirtless and Sculpted

    The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.

    Image