A post that is being shared widely on social media claims that an exhausted funeral home employee was cremated by mistake while taking a nap.
The post claims that a 48-year old man Micheal Jones from New York died after being accidentally cremated by one of his coworkers while taking a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight.

We found more posts on social media with similar claims.

Sad!!! Doctors, nurses and health volunteers and even funeral home workers are being overworked. Read how in NEW YORK AN EXHAUSTED FUNERAL HOME EMPLOYEE WAS CREMATED BY MISTAKE WHILE TAKING A NAP https://t.co/aImcrHMvcV

— Norbert Mao (@norbertmao) April 13, 2020

FACT CHECK

When NewsMobile checked the authenticity of the report, we found it to be FAKE.
On putting some keywords like ‘exhausted’ ’employee’ and ‘cremated’ we found an article that was originally posted by World News Daily Report.

However, when we scroll through the page, we found a disclaimer.
“World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle.” it read.

This proves that the report is fictional and holds no validity.

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