When health officials visited the Chambers Funeral Home & Crematorium in Riverdale, Maryland, an employee told them, “Don’t get upset about all the bodies in there.” Then, when state funeral home officials entered a back room, the space was filled to the brim with bodies. A stack of some 40 body bags made a pile 12 feet by 12 feet on the floor of the garage. The bodies, including some that were leaking fluids and unidentified, were being stored for cremation in an unrefrigerated garage.
Of course, the company immediately lost its license, though the fate of the company lies in the hands of state regulators at the end of the month, when a meeting will be held to determine whether or not William Chambers, the funeral home’s owner, will retain his license. The bodies were mostly medical cadavers from the local university, although some were from other funeral homes, sent to Chambers for cremation. Either way, that’s not the proper thing to do with someone’s remains, regardless of how they were treated after they passed.
“Even somebody who donates their body to science, they still should be treated with dignity,” said Hari Close, president of the Maryland Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors. “Not to mention the health and safety issues with the body fluids flowing out.”
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