A Long Island, New York family is suing a local funeral home for $88 million after they reportedly buried the wrong person into their mother’s plot.
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The family of 87-year-old Sadie Williams recalled the moment their concerns were ignored by a funeral director after they told him that the body they were shown was not their mother. “I said, ‘Mom has a mole.’ I just kept picking out different things. He stood at the top of the steps of the funeral home, laughing, going, ‘Oh, I hear that all the time. They tell me. People say that all the time. The embalming fluid smooths them out,’” one of Williams’ children, Samirah Lee, explained to CBS New York. Three days after the funeral, the same director contacted the family and said ‘I just want you to know that that wasn’t your mom,’”
Lee added that she rushed to the funeral home and found her mother’s body laying on a slab and recorded a video. The funeral director explained to Lee that he would have to inform the other family about their loved one being buried in the wrong plot.
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“Every single time I think about it, all I can see is my mother on that cold slab, naked … and he showed no concern when he opened that door and I saw her, just stark naked on the table, just sitting there, like she was waiting for me to find her,”
William’s family says the ordeal took 22 days to be resolved in opposition to the Muslim tradition of 72 days. In the lawsuit, the family is claiming gross negligence.