Funeral Home Mix-Up Swaps Two Elderly Women's Bodies

Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Stickney, Illinois, recently swapped two bodies due to mislabeling. When Lillian Grogan's family came to her wake, they were shocked to discover the wrong woman in her casket. "The family of Lillian Grogan said the stranger was wearing their grandmother's dress and favorite bracelet." Gah.

Grogran had already been buried in the other woman's grave, so her family had to have her exhumed. The identity of the other woman hasn't been released, but her family held a wake with the wrong body. [UPI, AP, Southtown Star]

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see, if i worked at a funeral home, this shit would never happen.

Holy crap that must suck...

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