Corpse Kept in Car With AC on After Being Refused by Hospital Morgue

The owner of an Australian funeral home says she was forced to keep a dead body in her car overnight with the air conditioning turned on because the morgue wouldn’t accept the corpse, according to the North West Telegraph.

Joanne Cummings, co-owner of Pilbara Funeral Services, told the Australian newspaper she burned through three tanks of gas keeping the corpse cool because the Hedland Health Campus refused the body for being “too fat.”

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