Bodies are piling up around the USA, Indigent funerals are exploding and folks are not claiming their loved one’s  on purpose. People Simply do not have the money. In spite of all this some claim the recession is over. People lack funds for burials.

“Death sure isn’t cheap. The average price of a casket is $2,000, according to U.S. Funerals online.

When you factor in the funeral service, it’s downright expensive to die. And in this economy, many people simply cannot afford the high cost of death, which might explain why bodies are piling up in morgues and the demand for publicly funded burials is on the rise.

In one Detroit morgue, even the county can’t afford to bury the dead people piling up.CNN reports that in Wayne County bodies are piling up inside the freezers in the morgue.  Families are not claiming the bodies and the county can’t afford the burials of the corpses.”Some people don’t come forward even though they know the people are here,” Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, told CNN. “They don’t have the money.”Wayne County now has a record number of unclaimed bodies, and the county budget to deal with this issue is only $21,000 annually – not nearly enough money to remedy the problem.

Furthermore, coroners and funeral directors in other major cities have seen a spike in the number of people looking for government-paid funerals, burials and cremations, according to USA Today.”People just aren’t in a position to pay $7,000 for a private funeral and burial,” Lt. David Smith of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office told USA Today.  The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has seen a 97% increase in indigent deaths from January to June 2009, and Las Vegas has seen a 22% increase in the past year…..

via www.nydailynews.com

From:  Bodies pile up around U.S. as families, counties cannot afford cost of burials.

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