Embalming nightmare

Deceased woman's arms were raised at her funeral.

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[LibertineDeSade]

This is both the family's fault and the funeral home's fault. The family should have known that she wasn't going to fit that casket... come on! And the funeral home should have done a better job of embalming, why would you leave a dead person's arms up like that? Makes no sense at all. And they should have communicated with the family about the state of the coffin they chose. All around poor decision making and lack of communication.

[tonythemann]

thumbs up if you thought the lady in the purple shirt is the one that was embalmed.

[BladedVelvet]

Well, I hate to disagree with the lady in purple, but they did have a choice about the grave. There are some people who take the cremated remains of a loved one and put them in a grave, with a gravestone and everything. They could have done that and visited the grave, but they chose not to.

@lavvy2585 I can't answer the first question, but she was cremated because she was morbidly obese, didn't fit in the casket, and apparently the family didn't opt for a larger casket.

[thecolaratlady]

She was the size of a toyota.. any moron, even Helen Keller could have seen the casket was way too small. B/c of the massive amounts of obese/ morbidly obese ppl in america, casket companies are having to build larger and larger caskets so it's NOT like a larger casket did not exist. b/c guess what? they do.

[lavvy2585]

I dont understand why this is going to trial and why was the body cremated?

[Butty1972]

Since when does a funeral home allow a family to choose an unsuitable casket for the size of the body and then go and blame the family for choose the wrong size?  This together with the unacceptable presentation of the body for viewing is horrendous. After having worked in funeral parlours and knowing the proceedures the blame stops firmly at the feet of the funeral director!

[SteelAVic18]

Swanson Funeral Home hosted Rosa Parks Funeral Home.

[oddsource]

I smell scam... family's part. That casket not fitting a large women. come on you can eyeball that. Apart with the embalming no clue shit happens.

[rematched00]

I sleep with my arms up like that, and they call the arm position a freak show? D:

[Gregg825]

What the family should have done also (if they had not already done so) was to have reported the funeral home to that states State Board of Morticians and flied a formal omplaint in addition to the lawsuite. I believe that would have put the icing on the cake.

[NewEnglanddur]

The family can always choose to bury the ashes next to a headstone. You wouldn't need as large a plot that way, I think.