Proposals would stiffen state\u2019s lax funeral home laws after series of gruesome cases, from sold body parts to fake ashes<\/p>\n
After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state\u2019s threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent a string of gruesome cases \u2013 from sold body parts to fake ashes.<\/p>\n
The cases have shattered hundreds of families. Many learned that their loved ones\u2019 remains were not in the ashes they ceremonially spread or held tight for years but were instead decaying in a building or, in one case, the back of hearse.<\/p>\n
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