Cremation
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Cremation offers an affordable alternative to traditional funerary services. Cremation costs much less than a traditional funeral service and burial. For example, a traditional funeral and burial service can cost in excess of $7,000 at a minimum, while many crematoriums offer cremation and a container for the ashes for around $1,200 (Hutchins 18A). In light of changing social values with respect to funeral services, cremation also offers a modern alternative to long, drawn-out burial services that often take a heavy emotional toll on the loved ones of the deceased. Over the past three decades, cremations have risen in number in the U.S. According to one report, the rate of cremations “has jumped from 5% of deaths nationwide in the early 1970s to more than 25 percent today” (Broadway 25). Nevertheless, cremation is literally a process whereby the remains of the deceased are burned and then any remaining bones are pulverized into ash. However, recent front-page headlines in Georgia and abuses at crematoriums and funeral homes that have them across the nation show that when it comes to cremation it is often the consumer who gets burned.In one of the most grisly discoveries in Georgia history, investigators discovered that a crematorium run by Ray Brent Marsh abused hundreds of bodies that were to be cremated by randomly burying them in piles in graves, on the property surrounding the crematorium, and in the nearby lake. Investigators have u
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hey are done so in a sealed container of one form or another. These can range from simple and inexpensive urns or containers to elaborately designed containers that costs thousands of dollars, like one relative to elected to keep her husband’s remains in a custom-made golf-bag urn. Social trends like the rising costs of funeral services and traditional burials and changing religious views (the Roman Catholic Church lifted its ban on cremation in 1963) have increased the number of cremations – allowing greater opportunities for abuse. Relatives of many individuals thought to be cremated at the crematorium run by Ray Marsh were shocked to discover the contents of containers they thoughts housed their relatives’ remains were instead filled with dirt, concrete, and other materials.
The recent abuses by Marsh and other discoveries of fraud and abuse at crematoriums and funeral homes across the nation have increased consumer wariness and prompted legislators to call for greater legislation and regulation designed to monitor crematoriums and the cremation industry. Currently there is no uniformity of state law with respect to cremations. Further, unlike funeral homes, there are no regular inspections of crematoriums. While there
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