Final Resting Place, Tel Aviv, The Many Meryls
May 20, 2012 8:00 PM
At some cemeteries, graves were desecrated so more plots could be sold. Is enough being done to protect bereaved families? Then, Israel's largest city is bordered on all sides by danger, but its residents now seem more focused on its beaches, bars, and booming high-tech industry; Also, Meryl Streep discusses her career in acting, her greatest performances, and her Oscar-winning part as the "Iron Lady," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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- The Final Resting Place story was a good start, but doesn't begin to tell the full story of how SCI rips off consumers in this country. In Virginia and Maryland, SCI was storing bodies in a garage (where the bodies were leaking, stinking and generally rotting) while awaiting burial in Arlington National Cemetery where there usually is a wait of 2 months or more before burials (with military honors) can occur. The Washington Post ran a series of articles on the problem written by reporter Josh White. SCI denied the problem but was ultimately forced to admit guilt, fined $50K and one of their funeral homes was put on probation by the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors & Embalmers. In Maryland, regulators have been working for 3 years to close a similar case against an SCI-owned funeral home. Both VA and MD have been forced to pass laws to prohibit some of the disrespectful and unethical practices SCI was using routinely. If you want to interview more people who suffered because of SCI (such as finding mold growing on the face of their loved one because the body wasn't refrigerated while awaiting burial), let me know and I will connect you with them. The law in Maryland was just signed by the Governor yesterday despite a letter from a law firm representing SCI that asked the governor to veto the bill. I'm a volunteer with the local chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
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