Published:  August 27th, 2011 12:36 EST
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Outrage: Funeral Home Loses Woman's Corpse
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"The daughters of an Alabama woman who died in 2010 sued the funeral home on Tuesday that handled her burial, saying it lost the body and couldn`t find it even after digging up several graves." Reuters If a dry cleaner loses your shirt, the matter can be quickly resolved if the owner offers to reimburse you for the shirt. But if a funeral home loses the body of a loved one, offering to replace the corpse of the dearly beloved with another stiff ain`t going to work. I`ve misplaced important documents at work, but for a funeral home employee to lose a body is a horse of a different color. If a funeral home employee treated a corpse with a modicum of respect, needless to say he would never lose a dead body. The grieving daughters are seeking $2 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Clearly an apology from the funeral home won`t suffice, but do the daughters deserve $3 million? Would you give them the money if you were on the jury? Follow Robert Paul Reyes on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertpaulreyes
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