Legacy MattersNYC Family Sues Over Funeral Home Horror
Bronx Business Accused Of Doing The Unspeakable After Man Has Holes In Head, Flies Buzzing On Body During Viewing
The La Paz Funeral Home in the Bronx is being sued after a family said it did little to prepare a loved one's body for a viewing following an autopsy.
The viewing at La Paz Funeral Home on East 149th Street near Lincoln Hospital was delayed because of problems preparing the body. When the mourners filed in they weren't prepared for what they saw.
Tears filled William Maldonado Jr.'s eyes as he described the condition of his younger brother's corpse.
"Bleeding," he said. "There were exposed wires, there were flies going in and out of the wound."
In fact, by the end of the funeral the flies buzzing around the body's open wound became so persistent the funeral home placed a white veil over the corpse's head to protect it.
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The crux of the lawsuit is that funeral homes are bound under long-standing common law to protect grieving families from such horrors.