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Nephew Says Aunt's Ghost Told Him She Wanted Burial

112810funeral.jpg In case you were wondering, the body of 105-year-old Ethel Baar is still being refrigerated as her great nephew, James Pollak, has blocked her cremation on religious grounds. Baar wrote in her will that she wanted to be cremated, and the rest of her family supports it, but Pollak says Baar's spirit spoke to him and that she is "crying out to him to save her."

The rest of Baar's family continues to argue that she was not a religious woman. It's still unclear why one distant relative's objections are overriding both Baar's last wishes and the wishes of the rest of her family, but the funeral home says they feel trapped in a strange family feud. But if we've learned anything from the movie Ghost, it's that you gotta listen to the Ghosts, or else they may sexually assault you on a pottery wheel.

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  • zstone

    If Gramercy Park Memorial Chapel does anything except fulfill that dead woman's wishes their business will and should suffer the consequences.

  • Guest

    ghosts? you KNOW it's a myth.

    this burial, cremate f'real.

  • Let's hope there isn't a power failure ....

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