8 Horrific Funeral Home Mishaps

#1 Mortuary Cremated The Wrong Body For Well Known Politicians Funeral

The wrong body was cremated at a politician's funeral after a mix-up over the spelling of his name. Due to a misspelling of Philip Bradbourn's surname on his medical records while in hospital, the error contributed to the wrong body being released for his January 16, 2015 funeral, with the remains of the similarly-named Philip Bradburn cremated instead.

#2 Funeral Home Buries Body The Day BEFORE His Funeral

When Monique Williams arrived at Leak and Sons Funeral Home in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago for a last-minute inspection of her mother's body before the wake, she noticed that the body looked very different from her mother. Leaks and Sons Funeral Home, said an employee mistakenly switched tags with Rutledge and the other body, and the other family confirmed that the other body was their deceased family member, which they buried the day before. They soon exhumed the body and held a proper funeral.

#3 A Women Gets Cremated Against Her Family's Wishes

A grieving family faced more bad news when they arrived at the funeral home to attend the memorial for 81-year-old matriarch Marguerite Mercier-Pelletierthey found that the funeral home had placed the wrong body in her coffin. In the coffin was a different person, and the 81 year old woman was cremated, against her dying wishes. Some of the family members are allegedly considering legal action.

#4 Pallbearers Drop The Coffin At The Cemetary Then Run Away

Debbie Swales, 47, screamed and collapsed as pallbearers carrying her devoted husband Gavin, 55, let him slip from their grasp and ran off, leaving the coffin on the ground and smashed open at a ceremony attended by hundreds of mourners in West Cemetery, Newcastle. Swales son, only 8 years old, picked up the body. The funeral was planned for a different time.

#5 A Funeral Home Stops a Childs Burial Because The Had The Wrong Casket

Mourners said it happened as they gathered at the grave site, placed flowers at the marker and watched the casket lower into the ground. At that point, officials from Elijah Bell Funeral Home in Miami stopped the service to switch caskets. The funeral director reportedly had to tell the grieving family the baby they thought they buried wasn't in the casket and asked if they wanted another service once the mistake was discovered.

#6 Cemetery Workers Dump a Body Into a Grave and Steal The Casket

In June 2013, it was discovered that workers at a Catholic cemetery dumped the body of a would-be nun in a stranger's grave before swiping her metal casket more than two decades earlier. Juanita left the convent after falling in love with a priest. She later committed suicide and was buried in what was believed, a church grave site. Relatives spent 23 years visiting an empty gave, until it was discovered that her remains were just scattered around the cemetery and her coffin was nowhere to be found.

#7 Funeral Home Places The WRONG Body On Display For Mourners

Nivina Cargill's family was totally distraught after going to calling hours at the funeral home and finding a different body in their mothers private viewing casket. They were horrified to see another woman's body in the casket. It took staff about five hours to find Cargill's body and prepare it for viewing. The relatives have filed a $50,000. lawsuit against Smoot Funeral Services in Columbus, Ohio for their horrifying ordeal.

#8 Undertaker Pressures An African Man To Bury The Wrong Body

Michael Galant's 58-year-old wife, Magdalene was supposed to be lying in her coffin for a private funeral and viewing, but it didn't take long to discover that the body in the coffin wasn't Magdalene. The funeral director swore that the body was her, then after some period of time told Michael that they had pulled the wrong body out for preparation. However, when the Galants wanted to halt the funeral service immediately, the undertakers convinced them to bury the stranger. After the ceremony, they gave Magdalene a proper burial, but it is uncertain what the other family was told about the burial of their loved one.

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