body brokers

Body brokers sentenced to prison

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2023 /

  “This is the most emotionally draining case I have ever experienced on the bench,” U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello said during Tuesday’s (January 3, 2023) sentencing hearing in Grand Junction, Colorado.  That was the comment, according to this article from Reuters, by the presiding judge at the sentencing hearing of body parts brokers…

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Time to regulate the anatomical bequest business

By Funeral Director Daily / November 9, 2021 /

As a funeral director every so often I was asked by a person or family to help with an anatomical bequest of a person who wanted to donate their body for medical research.  I’m located between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, where the medical schools for those respective states are located.  There was…

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Funeral Director Daily top read stories in the last month

By Funeral Director Daily / August 19, 2021 /

It is already past the 15th of the month when we highlight and replay for you our top read stories of the past 30 days.  While we hope you read all of Funeral Director Daily’s blog posts we also realize you are busy and certainly will miss some days.  Here are our most read posts…

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Congress working to stop “Body Brokers”

By Funeral Director Daily / July 22, 2021 /

It was probably ten years ago when I, as a funeral director, received a phone call from a member of a family whose father was on hospice care.  The family member told me that his father “wanted his body donated to science” and had made arrangements for a private company to help them do that. …

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Families gather to discuss Sunset Mesa Experiences

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2018 /

In the thirty-five years that I spent as a working funeral director and funeral home owner I learned to truly comprehend the responsibilities that had been given to me by the families that I served and how they truly relied on my guidance to plan and carry out the memorialization wishes that they had for…

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