Pay a little more and use another service
Used After to handle the cremation of my sister who passed on 7/11/24. Fri - called After and the first person who talked to me told me her siblings had to all sign stuff to cremate her. I spent hours contacting all sibs (5), but then thought " wait a minute, she has an adult son, isn't he her next of kin?". Called back, she said oh yes, that's true, he is. The completed item was back that day. Mon - tried calling to see about the next steps and no answer. had to call the main number and she either quit or was fired. Spoke to new guy, he was still waiting for documents from the hospital. I called him later in the week, he still didn't have them. Fortunately when I called the hospital it got handled. My sister had already been deceased for a week at this point. I waited until the very end of July to call and find out when she would be cremated and was told it would be at the beginning of August. Every single time I tried to contact the person handling her arrangements he would not answer his phone or respond to emails. But if I called the main number and said I couldn't get him, he would miraculously appear on the line!!?? Always dripping with apologies, blah, blah, blah. Then come to find out when they received her death certificate, her last name was spelled wrong!! They never verified it with the family, or request any type of ID, nothing. The DR signed a death verification with an incorrect last name and they filed for a DC without verifying her last name. A phone call or email to me was too much to ask!?? 2 weeks ago I sent them her expired state ID, which is all she had because her said he would attempt to fix it. She was finally cremated last week. He just now sent an email stating the ID would PROBABLY not be sufficient to fix the DC. He never even attempted to correct it!!! So much incompetence and BS. Spend a few more $$ s and use someone else where their processes are correct and their people better trained. Just awful.
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