Friday, August 07, 2009

Here's a downer for you

Time Magazine reports that a growing number of bodies at morgues are going unclaimed by family and friends – they can’t afford the cost of a burial.

Posted by Dave at 2:06 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was a similar story in Corpus Christi Caller Times here about how Nueces county needs to find a way to increase the budget for pauper burials since the need has increased on account of the economy...... sad indeed.

*Laurie

4:36 PM, August 07, 2009
Anonymous said...

And here's the link to the story, which I thought to look for after I made my first post...

http://www.caller.com/news/2009/aug/02/number-pauper-burials-increases-locally/

*Laurie

4:38 PM, August 07, 2009

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