In a message dated 2/20/02 8:51:22 PM US Eastern Standard Time, richkmball@hotmail.com writes: > Jack, > Hope you're not contracted with the crematory in Georgia. > Rich > > No, I would have somewone make sure this didn' happen. This same thing happened in California around 1988. The individual was paid to fly out over the ocean, or in the dessert, or in the mountains and scatter the ashes from several thousand feet. The Law found around 500 urns with ashes in a Storage building that the fee was not paid on. When the owner of the Bldg. opened it for Auction, 500 urns at $200 each not scattered, were found, thats good money. Those Type People bear watching. Although the scattering of your ashes is no more guaranteed than keeping a cemetery in proper condition. It's all about Money The Pilot said he was short on operating money. Where did all of the money paid him go. Like in Georgia, the Furnace wasn't working. Why not ? they were paid. Crooks!!! Jack

Jack, That was in 1996, I think. It was FIVE THOUSANDS sets of cremated remains. The guy ultimately committed suicide over it. The families got together and sued the mortuaries over it and the funeral industry got together and pooled funds to make the settlement payment. Just like in Georgia, the STATE did relatively little in this case. That Georgia guys attorney has told the county officials they have no right to search the premises because there is no Georgia law that has been broken! Apparently the funeral industry there got strong enough to repeal any laws that might stop them from doing whatever they want. In 2000, our state shut down a cemetery in Los Angeles (WOODLAWN CEMETERY) because they had been burying over and burying over old graves long enough that there were bones on the surface of the ground! Why does it take something this monsterous to make people realize this industry is OUT OF CONTROL!! Jessica Mittford knew it back in 1965. Just another lesson in history to learn. Wish they'd (the authorities) learn it soon. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jb502000@aol.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Archeologists and cemetery preservation > In a message dated 2/20/02 8:51:22 PM US Eastern Standard Time, > richkmball@hotmail.com writes: > > > > Jack, > > Hope you're not contracted with the crematory in Georgia. > > Rich > > > > > No, I would have somewone make sure this didn' happen. This same thing > happened in California around 1988. The individual was paid to fly out over > the ocean, or in the dessert, or in the mountains and scatter the ashes from > several thousand feet. The Law found around 500 urns with ashes in a Storage > building that the fee was not paid on. When the owner of the Bldg. opened it > for Auction, 500 urns at $200 each not scattered, were found, thats good > money. Those Type People bear watching. Although the scattering of your > ashes is no more guaranteed than keeping a cemetery in proper condition. It's > all about Money The Pilot said he was short on operating money. Where did > all of the money paid him go. Like in Georgia, the Furnace wasn't working. > Why not ? they were paid. Crooks!!! > Jack > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families > are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is > undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, > historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved > in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - > not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family > memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of > yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery > exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > >