The Big Business of Death. / Mary McLachlin.
by McLachlin, Mary; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 64Family. Publisher: Palm Beach Post, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Service Corporation International | Consolidation and merger of corporations | Corporations -- Finance | Cremation | Funeral homes | Undertakers and undertakingDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Service Corporation International, the [funeral] industry's global leader, has 4,300 funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria in 18 countries. In Florida, SCI operates 162 facilities, including funeral homes....They include the Menorah Gardens cemetery in Palm Beach County, accused in a lawsuit of overselling cemetery plots, switching cremated remains, mixing up and digging up gravesites and dumping remains in the woods." (PALM BEACH POST) This article utilizes the Menorah Gardens scandal to illustrate the problems that can ensue when the death care industry allows itself to become driven by corporate attitudes and growing profit margins.
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Originally Published: The Big Business of Death, Feb. 24, 2002; pp. 1A+.
"Service Corporation International, the [funeral] industry's global leader, has 4,300 funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria in 18 countries. In Florida, SCI operates 162 facilities, including funeral homes....They include the Menorah Gardens cemetery in Palm Beach County, accused in a lawsuit of overselling cemetery plots, switching cremated remains, mixing up and digging up gravesites and dumping remains in the woods." (PALM BEACH POST) This article utilizes the Menorah Gardens scandal to illustrate the problems that can ensue when the death care industry allows itself to become driven by corporate attitudes and growing profit margins.
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