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Indiana investigating funeral home owner

Written by Alex
Saturday, 05 January 2008
Greenwood -- Indiana authorities are investigating whether a funeral home owner misused money at a Greenwood cemetery.News of the investigation comes after The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press reported last week that the Michigan attorney general and other agencies say Robert Nelms, president and chief executive officer of Memory Gardens Management Corp., misused more than $4.2 million held in trust for burials. The owner of cemeteries and funeral homes in several states, Nelms has Indiana locations in South Bend, Fort Wayne and Greenwood, at 1977 S. Ind. 135. "Our consumer protection division is reviewing some information and investigating Forest Lawn Memory Gardens (in Greenwood)," said Staci Schneider, spokeswoman for Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. "We've had reports. We've obviously seen some of the reports coming out of Michigan. Locally, we're concerned about some of those reports." Schneider said the investigation is at Forest Lawn but "might proceed into other areas." She declined to comment further on the nature of the reports the attorney general's office received. Nelms denied the claims in The Grand Rapids Press report. Nelms, who lives in Indiana, has not been charged with any crime, but Michigan authorities received a temporary injunction barring him from access to the Michigan cemetery's funds. Alan Bucksot, director of corporate affairs for Memory Gardens Management Corp., said he didn't know why the allegations were made. "We don't know where these rumors come from," he said. "No customer, no consumer has anything to lose. They're not at risk." http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080105/LOCAL/801050464

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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

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Each year in the U.S., we bury 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, which includes formaldehyde

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“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou thin'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death; nor yet canst thou kill me.”

John Donne (1573-1631) From De

Grave Epigrams

She long'd the day, to go the way
Where all the living must.
And wished the hour of Sovereign Power
To turn to native dust.
By faith she lived in faith she dy'd
Left much behind to teach
Her husband near, & daughter dear,
Such things as none can preach.

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