Man drives 100s of miles with corpse passenger

A Detroit-area man was so determined to get to Michigan from Arizona that he refused to stop and contact authorities after one of his passengers died, police said Wednesday.

The man, a 62-year-old Clinton Township resident, has not been charged and authorities were awaiting toxicology results from an autopsy performed on the body of the 31-year-old woman who died.

It is a law that you cannot take an un-embalmed body across state lines. If you wish, in Oregon, you can bury your loved one in your back yard without a casket, as long as it is deep enough and you mark the area. I found all this out because I was trying to figure out how to get out of an additional 6 grand to get my mother to her crypt in Oceanside, CA. She was adamant that she did NOT want to be cremated, so I was getting desperate. Sheesh! She died in my home after 5 years of caring for her and they charged 700 just to pick up her body.

She wanted my brother's ashes in her coffin with her, so I placed them in a Coca Cola ice bucket, super-glued it shut, and I thought that was the end of it. When they got her body to the mortuary in CA, they opened it and asked me whose cremains were those. I explained, and they said I couldn't do that. I told them that I had already checked all laws, and there was no reason not to keep them in the coffin. Basically, they wanted and additional 1900.00 to do that! I said no, and one day soon after I got a package from them via UPS. I told my driver what it was, he said to refuse it and it went back to them. Heck, I could do that all year! Bastards finally put brother's ashes in a niche which I did not pay for.

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