A leaking coffin...
The horror.

This poster described the scene,
www.b3ta.com/questions/funerals/post54144

There's much more to the story - at least one of the bearers got the gunge on his face and had to be dragged away sharpish to wash it off at the church, and the coffin leaked continuously, so that on the catafalque at the crematorium a stinky, thin, blood-coloured gunge was pouring out. And so on...

It fell to Yours Truly and A.N. Other to complain about it.

We went along expecting an apology from the undertaker for so shamefully neglecting our loved one's earthly remains. Instead, he more or less shrugged and said 'shit happens.' Not in so many words, but no apology. He was basically pleased that he'd got the funeral over with, and knew that we couldn't do a damn thing about it.

So as I've had no satisfaction from the undertaker, there is no need for any discretion on my part.

Rob Smith, formerly of Oxley's in Crewe and latterly of Crewe Funeral Services, and now, I hear, on the dole, you are a SHITE undertaker. I wouldn't send you to bury a goldfish.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 20:32, 6 replies)

My condolences,
as for what Rob Smith did, well, there's just no words for the awful treatment to all involved.
(Sadarse works like Mist condensing mud flaps, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 21:02, closed)

Thank you
and what a tosser, eh?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 22:12, closed)

That's truly horrible

( zulu eh?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 22:11, closed)

oh dear god
And thats all i can say really , apart from adding "gags and tears up"
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 1:34, closed)

That is the worst thing I have ever heard of in regards to a funeral. May that man be left in some dodgy American funeral home where they keep them in car bodies and buried in the woods.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 8:14, closed)

God
That is fucking horrific. It must have been something that would scar one for life.
Rob Smith is plainly a disgrace not only to undertakers, but to the human race too (and considering our species has a track record of being arseholes on the whole, that's going some).
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 9:18, closed)