An unearthed, shallow grave remains in a woman's backyard in Apple Valley on Thursday, June 20, 2013. Unable to pay for a funeral, the Apple Valley woman reportedly told sheriff's deputies she buried her husband in the makeshift grave weeks after the man died, according to authorities. (Rachel Luna / Staff Photographer) (Rachel Luna)
Unable to pay for husband’s funeral, Apple Valley woman allegedy buries him in backyard
Seems that we can not only no longer LIVE free, but we can’t die FREE either: even in death, we’re still bound by the dictates of nanny government. ..
That is criminal activity.
I really don’t have a problem with this, as long as a person is buried in a coffin I think.
I wouldn’t have a problem buying a house with the old folks buried in the yard, as long as they’re not next to the house and as long as they died of natural causes. ;)
What did we do before the price of a burial was such a rip off? What came naturally of course.
I hope Sunset Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary in Apple Valley will step in and help if there has been no foul play. Northeast corner of this high desert community with a nice chapel. Where Roy Rogers and Dale Evans are buried.
I can’t fault her, she did what she could at the time. Its not easy to react calmly when you lose someone who is very close to you. If she had a large freezer she could have kept him on ice, like so many of the other stories I’ve read. I wonder how many more of these type stories will appear with the new Obama care in place? I’m sure the Gov’t. will come up with some kind of burial welfare entitlement check eventually.
These health and Safety Codes prohibiting burials other than a cemetary are nothing more than payoff laws made for the Funeral lobby.
When my first wife died I was amazed at how difficult it is to check out. I needed countless official death certificates for probate, life insurance, pension, auto titles even my kids college. Without an official finding this woman won’t have death certificates. I’m very sorry for her anguished decision.
I plan to donate my body to a medical school to train doctors in anatomy. My brother-in-law did this and when he died the university medical school arranged to have his body picked up by a local funeral home and about a year and a half later his cremated remains were returned to the family for burial...all without cost.
All this remind me of this funny episode from Married with Children:
Bundy Family Barbecue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inubkn_TmUs
All this remind me of this funny episode from Married with Children:
Bundy Family Barbecue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inubkn_TmUs
It's touching in this case.
If you can afford a house, you can afford a cremation. Maybe the reasoning is her and her husband had something against that. I feel bad for her either way. A loved one’s death can affect people in different ways.
Right next to the hamster and the goldfish perhaps?
While I’m sorry for her loss, there is another reason to bury a body in the backyard - and that’s to keep the checks coming in.
When I was about 7 or 8 (in the 50's), I can remember a cemetery being dug up in Rochester, NY, to put in an expressway. From that day forward, I was determined to be cremated. I didn't want my bones being dug up 100 years later so they could put a road in.