Bodies Piling Up in Detroit

[Jim Ed of those Elk]

From http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news...rgue/index.htm

Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead

Money to bury Detroit's poor has dried up, forcing struggling families to abandon their loved ones in the morgue freezer.

Poppy Harlow

October 1, 2009

DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money." ...

More at link.

[Crowley]

I thought unclaimed cadavers went to the medical schools?

[Jim Ed of those Elk]

Originally Posted by bardamu

I thought unclaimed cadavers went to the medical schools?

No, that would invite all kinds of lawsuits. Med school cadavers are typically expressly donated from what I understand.

[Crowley]

Originally Posted by Azimuth

No, that would invite all kinds of lawsuits. Med school cadavers are typically expressly donated from what I understand.

Eventually they have to do something with unclaimed cadavers?

On further consideration the phrase "shovel ready" does come to mind.

[Lud]

Originally Posted by bardamu

Eventually they have to do something with unclaimed cadavers?

On further consideration the phrase "shovel ready" does come to mind.

Potter's field.

[Copperhead]

I read last year that white ethnics who long ago fled to the suburbs are now disinterring their dead relatives from Detroit cemeteries for reburial in safer, suburban cemeteries. Maybe they should just start throwing the unclaimed bodies into the holes dug by the micks, wops, and polacks. After a few negro corpses move into the cemetery, the process of post-mortem white flight will accelerate and lots of cheap burial plots will become available for the rest of the morgue stiffs.

[Crowley]

Face it, Blacks are so inept they can't manage to bury their own dead.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Originally Posted by bardamu

Face it, Blacks are so inept they can't manage to bury their own dead.

They show no interest in taking care of their own orphans (leaving that to white liberals) so why would they care about their dead?

[harjit]

Originally Posted by Copperhead

I read last year that white ethnics who long ago fled to the suburbs are now disinterring their dead relatives from Detroit cemeteries for reburial in safer, suburban cemeteries.

Black ghosts be robbin' and pimpin' and swillin' dat 40.

[Jake Featherston]

Human corpses are just empty shells. Its amazing some efficient method of disposal is not simply embarked upon. If the family doesn't care how the body is interred, why should society care for them? Landfill, anyone?