House bill protects grievers vs abusive morgues

Five members of Congress have jointly proposed new legislation seeking to safeguard grievers against potential abuses by funeral homes, amid reports that crooked agents of the law have established lucrative rackets taking cuts from mortuaries that have been claiming the dead bodies of victims of fatal road accidents and violent crime.

The proposed Griever’s Protection Act, or House Bill (HB) 5036, seeks to criminalize and punish the harassment or exploitation of families who have lost loved ones, and who are unable to pay for the services of the morgues that retrieved the remains of their departed kin.