Funeral Consumers Alliance

 
  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size

Complaint against Rose Hills Mortuary California

E-mail Print PDF
My brother passed away in Kentucky on August 27th, 2008 and after having his body cremated my family brought his ashes to California and had selected a specific cremation niche on the left side of a beautiful waterfall at Rose Hills. The day of the service they had set up the chairs and flowers on the right side of the waterfall and told us that whomever told us there was a niche available on the left side was incorrect. The sales person we dealt with previously was not working that day. After an hour or so of discussing our arrangements with various employees and 75 relatives looking on in the sun, we had the service on the left side and a few days later saw them place his ashes in our desired niche on the left side. It's been a little more than a month now and my family visited the mortuary and to our horror they placed his name plate on the wrong side. Are his ashes behind his name or are they in the other niche? My family is terribly upset and sick of this kind of treatment. What can we do? We feel like taking his ashes back and moving them somewhere else. Thank you.
 
This is a comment on "Filing a Complaint"

Featured Products

Before I Go, You Should Know - Funeral Planning Kit
Before I Go, You Should Know - Funeral Planning Kit
$12.00

Shopping Cart

VirtueMart
Your Cart is currently empty.

Dangers of Prepaying

"Preneed" is a term coined by the funeral industry to describe the arrangement and payment of a funeral prior to death. Obviously, if you are to have any say in it, you must plan in advance of your death. "Prearrangement" is also used interchangeably with "preneed".

The marketing of preneed plans for funeral services and merchandise is increasingly prevalent. Various companies, including insurance companies, "for-profit cremation societies," and "preneed associations" flood the mail with advertising which touts the benefits of their preneed plans. There are a number of pitfalls, as well as options, about which consumers should be well-informed.

Click here for the full article.

Click here for a pdf.


Newsflash

Welcome to our new website. We've overhauled it to make it easier for you to find the practical information you need to make informed funeral choices and get answers to the most common questions about funeral choices and costs. If you don't find what you need, use our search box in the upper right corner. You can also enlarge the text to make it easier to read.

About FCA

The Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) is a Federation of Nonprofit Consumer Information Societies protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral since 1963.