You Had One Job: Funeral Home Put The Wrong Body In A Casket And The Family Is Pissed
Daily Mail- The family of a man who was cremated by mistake after a funeral home accidentally put a stranger’s body in his coffin have filed a lawsuit. Jerry Moon’s family only discovered the devastating blunder when they opened the casket to say their final goodbyes and found the other body wrapped in a plastic bag. While the body of the loving father – who was terrified of cremation – was accidentally incinerated at Dahl McVicker Funeral Home in Kelso, Washington State. According to family members, Mr Moon’s funeral was a touching goodbye to the man they loved. At the end of the service, they opened the casket. But they were horrified to find the body of Robert Petitclerc – dressed in Jerry Moon’s clothes and with a picture of Moon’s wife tucked under the pillow in the coffin.
You had one job, funeral home! One! Put the right body in the casket and wheel it out for the funeral. Pretty easy. You couldn’t even do that right and now the family is horrified forever and is suing you. To make matters worse, you didn’t just put the wrong body in the casket, you cremated the body that was supposed to be in the casket without permission. Whoops! Just ruining this family’s life one misstep at a time. You just know for a fact that the funeral home knew they fucked up and were hoping the family didn’t open the casket. They didn’t accidentally put that body in there. They were trying to pull a fast one. They were at the team meeting (assuming funeral homes have a team meeting before every work day. Like restaurants) like, “Alright, we screwed up BIG TIME. We may or may not have cremated the wrong body. It happens. So we’re gonna put a different body in that casket and call it good. Hope they don’t open the casket. A dead body is a dead body, am I right? Right. Ready, break!” And then wouldn’t you know it, the family had the audacity to open the casket one last time to see their family member for the last time and the jig was up.