- June 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The state of Maine this week closed down Affordable Cremations in Lewiston and pulled its license after finding stinking, unrefrigerated bodies. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
LEWISTON – After discovering the remains of 11 people sitting unrefrigerated at Affordable Cremation Solutions last week, state regulators filed an order Monday suspending both its operations and the funeral license of its owner.
An investigator who visited the Main Street establishment Thursday found an “odor of decomposition” in the upstairs office and got a headache as he waited to enter a room downstairs where the remains turned up.
Earlier in the week, the investigator saw “reddish brown fluid on the floor” that appeared “to flow into the drain.”
At least eight bodies had sat there since mid-May, the investigator said, and one “was too large to fit in a body bag and was accordingly in an unsealed box.”
Regulators deemed the situation so hazardous that they took…
