And currently, Sunset Memorial Gardens in Cleveland, Tenn., is attempting to repair its reputation after poor conditions there led hundreds of people to complain and state authorities to intervene in 2015.
A consent order handed down by the state to Sunset Memorial Gardens in August noted that odors coming from a mausoleum in the cemetery, "[are] more likely than not that of decomposing human remains."
The cemetery, located on North Lee Highway, faced a possible suspension of its license, according to the consent order.
Inspectors noted leaks, cracks in the drywall and ceiling, missing crypt plates, mold and debris as problems in one of the cemetery's mausoleums.
Complaints from those with friends and relatives interred at the cemetery also brought up groundskeeping issues.
Sunset Memorial Gardens brought in an entombment solutions company from Pennsylvania, and the state is continuing with inspections of the cemetery, according to newspaper archives.
In 2002, national media swarmed to the unincorporated Walker County, Ga., town of Noble when 334 bodies were found stacked in vaults, tossed in buildings, thrown in holes and cast into the woods at Tri-State Crematory.
The crematory's operator, Brent Marsh, was slapped with 787 felony charges and began serving a 12-year prison sentence in 2005.
Because of what happened at the Tri-State Crematory, any crematory in Georgia now must have a license that is renewed every two years and the facility must be inspected at least once a year.
Legislators in other states scrambled to implement similar regulations.
Investigators were not prepared for what they found at the site, where remains were haphazardly strewn about.
"It was like something out of a Stephen King novel," Walter Hensley told the Times Free Press for a 2012 article looking back at the chilling discovery and its aftermath. Hensley was among the first on the scene with the Walker County Sheriff's Office.
"Every building you opened had bodies," he said.