Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Casey Kasem Finally Gets Burial
Casey Kasem has finally been laid to rest, nearly six months after his death, ABC News reports. Kasem was buried in Norway by his wife Jean without consulting his children. Since Jean is the conservator of his remains, she was under no obligation to tell the children about the burial. Kerri Kasem and his other children are sure to be livid about this development; Kerri had previously stated that her father had requested to be buried outside of Glendale, California (most likely at the famed Forest Lawn cemetery).
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This is terrible. He should be where his fans can visit him! Why freaking Norway? Did she get a deal on an iceberg mausoleum?
ReplyDeleteThat's so messed up!
ReplyDeletePoor Casey!!! May he finally rest in peace. That Jean is some piece of work.
ReplyDeleteShe's a real nut case, but I didn't know the legal battle was over..
ReplyDeleteGood God! May he rest in peach….Finally!
ReplyDeleteor Peace! Lol
DeleteJessi - might be a little lumpy to rest in peaches!!! Lol!! :)
ReplyDeleteI guess this just reinforces if you want something to happen after you die, put it in writing. Don't rely on someone doing something just because it's what you told them you wanted. If you want your kids to get some money, give it to them while you're alive or set up a trust fund that your spouse can't touch. Wasn't it mentioned on here that his wife Jean truly might be suffering from some sort of mental problems? It's seriously fucked up when someone is holding a dead body hostage over family squabbles the way Jean did (and James Brown's family too.).
ReplyDeleteWell that's just sad. Why do people do that? Can't they put aside their petty differences for 5 minutes and think about what the person they all so dearly loved would have wanted? Casey should have put it all in writing though. Of course there is no guarantee she would have followed the instructions.
ReplyDeleteWell sometimes you put it in writing and you still don't get your wish. That's really tempting Kharma IMO.
ReplyDeleteI would think there's a way to make your burial wishes ironclad but most people don't take the legal steps to do it. I don't think most people really plan ahead for that kind of thing because most don't want to think about their mortality. The more $$ you have the more likely family are to squabble about it, especially if the wife isn't the "original" wife. IMO.
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ReplyDeleteWe would go on right now, pick and choose anything we want and prepay. I'm guessing that wishes go unfulfilled because the beneficiaries don't want to take it out of their inheritances or there's no money left.
That's what I mean by planning ahead. Pre-paying it and having it in writing that it's not up for negotiation after the fact. No take backseys written into the will.
DeleteLeona Helmsley left a 12 million dollar trust fund to her Maltese, which later was reduced to 2 million because it was deemed excessive. The excess went to the animal charity she had left a chunk of her estate to. I figure if you can leave 2 million to a dog, you can get your damn corpse buried where you want.
Don't ask me who MOST people are.
ReplyDeleteI've read that they wanted to investigate Jean for elderly abuse and that's why she took the body out of the country. She didn't want him to be examined or have an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
ReplyDeleteHow the hell did she manage that if she was under investigation? She slip it onto a private plane in the middle of the night? That is too weird.
DeleteR.I.P. - finally, Casey. He was a HUGE part of my childhood, and no one has ever replaced him (I'm squinting at you, Seacrest).
ReplyDeleteHis wife - Jean. Was she the inspiration for Madonna's "Blonde Ambition" look?