CEMETERY SCAMS-CORPORATIONS OWN THEM & WILL RIP YOU OFF

 The bottom line is that most of the cemeteries that you are familiar with in your hometown are, more than likely, run by one of the industry’s biggest corporations.

In general, it is only the very tiniest – and most remote -- of cemeteries that are run by the small, local groups. In most U.S. cities the largest, best known cemeteries are owned by the giant, national (or even multi-national) corporations that dominate the industry. These companies are Service Corp International, Stewart Enterprises, Carriage Services and, one of the newest national players in the industry, Keystone North America.

"DIGNITY MEMORIAL" is part of a huge corporation, SERVICE CORP. INTERNATIONAL, who last year made 365 million dollars on the "death care industry".
Although funeral parlors are regulated by the FCC to protect consumers, cemeteries are not..."


THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF!!!

BE CAREFUL!!!

Case in point:

BLACK CEMETERY SCANDAL

"CHICAGO, IL - An archaeologists' report says investigators found bodies dumped in an unused corner of a suburban Chicago cemetery in greater numbers than first thought.
Burr Oak Cemetery manager Carolyn Towns and several others were charged in July 2009 in an alleged scheme to unearth bodies to make way for new burials, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The site is of special significance to Chicago's African-American community because it was one of the first to allow blacks to bury their loved ones.
The exhumed coffins and bodies were allegedly dumped in an unused corner of the cemetery in numbers far greater than the original investigation found, the newspaper reported...."

All this to make way for more bodies; hence, more money for the corporation running it.