Funeral home horrors put spotlight on spotty US regulations

In an Oct. 19, 2017 photo, Patricia Williams and her brother Robert Duffer Jr. visit a Detroit-area cemetery in Fraser, Mich., where the family buried ashes that they hope are those of their mother, Myrna Duffer. Williams said Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, in 2012, gave the family a bag of ashes that had nothing indicating they belonged to her mother. The mortuary science licenses of the funeral home and manager O’Neil Swanson II were suspended this summer after inspections found maggots on the floor of a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were being stored. (Associated Press/Corey Williams)

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