Detroit: Too Broke To Bury Their Dead
There are 67 bodies all piled up in the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, unclaimed, in a freezer. None of the families nor the county can afford to bury them, so they stack up in a freezer. The chief investigator, Albert Samuels, said that he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. “The number of unclaimed corpses at the Wayne County morgue is at a record high, having tripled since 2000.” ” ‘One way we look back at a culture is how they dispose of their dead, ‘ said the county’s chief medical examiner, Carl Schmidt, who has been in his position for 15 years.”
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