2023-04-29 19:56:48
The carpenter he was ” immediately “ overview of the problem. Thursday April 20 in the early morning, while he meditates in pain in front of the coffin of his wife, in Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, Robert Brunet, 79, notes bitterly that the last wishes of Liliane, carried away by a cancer have not been met, note The Picard Courier.
The solid oak coffin she had chosen during her lifetime – then called the Zurich coffin – was made of beech. “A much less noble wood”, he gets annoyed. The handles, which must have been in silver-finish resin, are… in wood. He immediately reports the problem to the master of ceremonies, who promises to “return information”. But in the advanced protocol of a painful moment that is a funeral, Robert Brunet helplessly attends the burial of Lilianne in a final resting place which was not his, in the cemetery of Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau . ” I was ashamed “he slips still moved and shocked.
“They promised me an equivalent”
In 2017, Lilianne and Robert had however taken out a funeral contract and prepared their last trip. « Q When we entered the funeral home, Lilianne immediately liked the Zurich coffin (the name of the range, editor’s note)”. Two days before the burial, however, the Coulon funeral directors warn Robert that the Zurich range no longer exists, “they just told me that the reference had changed”. He signs the contract “without really paying attention”, still upset by the death of Lilianne. And on the day of the funeral, he realizes that the coffin from the new range – Hasbro – does not correspond in any way to the one chosen by the deceased. A week later, still in shock at the discovery, he therefore decided to file a complaint for breach of trust on a vulnerable person.
“We put our bonuses aside every year to be able to prepare for our funeral”
Present at the funeral, the mayor of Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, Pascal Théophile, split a vitriolic letter, in which he supports Robert Brunet and asks the Coulon funeral directors to respect the CONTRACT : “I deplore such a performance which does not honor your profession too often decried”.
For his part, Robert Brunet is determined to go ” until the end » ; until the exhumation of Liliane if necessary to replace the coffin. “I don’t want financial compensation, I just want Liliane’s last wishes to be respected”insists the one who shared 45 years of common life with Liliane. “We don’t have any children together. We put our bonuses aside every year to be able to prepare for our funeral., he recalls. The funeral contract taken out in 2017 by Liliane and Robert had cost the modest sum of… 4,996 euros.
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