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FROM
CUBA
Funeral services leave a lot to be desired
in town outside Havana
HAVANA, December 19 (www.cubanet.org)
- Residents of the town of Cabañas,
on the outskirts of Havana, say funeral
services provided by the government in the
area leave a lot to be desired.
For starters, residents say the one funeral
car has been in the shop for over a year
for repairs, so that transporting caskets
becomes a problem at every step of the process.
Caskets are of very poor quality. Lately,
residents say, they are not lined, so that
relatives of the dead have to provide bed
sheets to line them. Some come without hardware,
so the tops have to be nailed shut, a procedure
which usually upsets the mourners.
The local cemetery is not fenced in, so
there is a lot of pilferage from tombs.
For example, the plastic flowers, flower
pots, benches and bronze rings from the
tombs are mostly missing and usually sold
back to the government's materials recycling
operation.
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