What HBO’s The Mortician Reveals—and Why It Reinforces the Importance of Ethical Cremation
HBO’s gripping new documentary series, The Mortician, has shocked viewers with its depiction of one of the most appalling funeral home scandals in American history. The series focuses on David Sconce, who, in the 1980s, operated Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California. Instead of honoring the dead with dignity, Sconce chose profits over ethics—cremating up to 200 individuals at a time in a single chamber, mixing their remains, and deceiving families who believed they were receiving the ashes of their loved one and no one else. Continue reading The Mortician