Tall body's legs cut off to fit casket
By Jeffrey Collins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A South Carolina judge has ordered the closing of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a body so it would fit in a casket.
Judge Deborah Durden on Tuesday upheld last month's decision by the state Funeral Board to revoke the license of Cave Funeral Home and owner Michael Cave.
Cave admitted in an administrative court that his Allendale funeral home cut the legs off 6-foot-7 (2-meter) tall James Hines five years ago and did not tell his family. Cave said he didn't want grieving relatives to suffer more.
Hines' widow said finding out what happened was like having her husband die a second time. A fired funeral home worker notified the family about a year ago.
Good thing I'm only 6'4" eh? There seems to be a lot of these funeral director gone wrong stories. There's the grave robbing and Illinois and the one funeral home where the crematorium broke so they were just tossing people into a ditch. It seems to be a business where you'd have to be a bit tweeked to get into it. That said, my great uncle was an exceptional undertaker for decades and as far as I know he always professional in the workplace. But I'm sure he made a few "jumping out of a casket" practical jokes. I mean, who could resist?
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