Authorities find more bodies after initial report of 115 two weeks ago, when owners were evicted and police investigated foul odor

The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from about 115 reported when the bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.

The remains were found by authorities responding to a report of a foul odor at the Return to Nature funeral home inside a decrepit building in the small town of Penrose, Colorado.

Efforts to identify the remains began last week with help from an FBI team that gets deployed to mass casualty events like airline crashes. Fremont sheriff Allen Cooper described the scene as “horrific”.

  • @[email protected]
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    742 years ago

    Wtf is this thread. There’s a comment chain going wild about how to bury your own body.

    Is there a Lemmy bestOf?

    • SeedyOne
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      132 years ago

      You’re seeing that in-between moment when a wildly ignorant comment is upvoted to the top quickly but comes down slowly. It’s still hot, but the OP has been downvotes far below most corrective comments.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      Lemmites thinking anyone who provides a service is a parasitic bourgeois bastard that needs guillotining.

      • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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        162 years ago

        As with any service, everything can be “reasonably” priced. Things that people need every day have become predatory or straight price gouging. Funeral homes are one of those. If people want to have their naked bodies burned or put into the ground, they should be able to.