Woman Claims Funeral Home Put the 'Wrong Corpse' in Her Uncle’s Suit and Casket — and Tried to Deny the Mistake Amentha Hunt and her aunt are suing Harrison-Ross Mortuary for the alleged mix-up, ...

A California family is accusing a Compton funeral home of putting the wrong man in their loved one’s casket — and even dressing the stranger’s corpse up in his suit. But when loved ones confronted the ...

Amentha Hunt went to Harrison-Ross Mortuary in Compton, Calif., to pay her respects to her uncle Otis Adkinson, who died on Feb. 28 at 80. But though her family signed a contract with the business to ...

CABELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — A gravedigger has been arrested after a baby’s corpse, buried in 1982, and a busted casket were found on the grounds of a West Virginia cemetery. A person decorating ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

Patent model for James Shannon, “Improvement in Coffins,” U.S. Patent 212,273 (Feb. 11, 1879). Shannon's coffin would "prevent displacement of the corpse within the coffin" when it was transferred, ...

Amentha Hunt claims that when she attended her late uncle's viewing in April, she found a stranger in his suit and casket instead of him Along with her uncle's wife, Hunt is now suing Harrison-Ross ...