New York City will bury unclaimed bodies
on a remote island after 14 days because
coronavirus deaths are overwhelming morgues
Business Insider,
by
Dave Mosher
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/10/2020 9:25:16 AM
As coronavirus infections peak in New York City, its morgues are quickly running out of room, exceeding their already vastly expanded capacity. The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) quietly posted a significant but subtle policy change to its website: Instead of holding some bodies in refrigerated city storage for 30 days until they are claimed by families, the city will now hold them for less than half that time. On Thursday, OCME’s site said decedents who are not claimed by a funeral home within two weeks would be sent to the Bronx’s Hart Island, where a graveyard
Nice ghoulish, unneeded news. I hope they're going to show them actually putting them in the ground... I mean after all, inquiring minds want to know!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/10/2020 9:34:28 AM (No. 374866)
The problem is really not an increase in daily deaths in NY -- they have not increased markedly. The problem is that funerals (or any events) are hard to schedule. Best (and cheapest) is just to ignore that ole g'pa died and let the state bury him for free.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 4/10/2020 9:40:42 AM (No. 374874)
Fake. A city of 8 million is not overwhelmed by 7 thousand deaths over 2 months. Unclaimed bodies are different than too many bodies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Condor44 4/10/2020 9:44:30 AM (No. 374881)
Another example of the msm sensationalizing things. Hart Island is not remote. Its next to city island which is right off of the mainland. It has been NYC's potters field for eons.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sydney727 4/10/2020 9:46:02 AM (No. 374883)
Is this fake news?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MFM 4/10/2020 9:49:44 AM (No. 374890)
And the media will provide LIVE TV Coverage of the event.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/10/2020 10:10:45 AM (No. 374922)
Why can't they cremate them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/10/2020 10:31:15 AM (No. 374960)
I guess NYC hasn't heard of refrigerated trucks.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/10/2020 11:00:26 AM (No. 375012)
More gloom and doom designed to increase the flow of money to an unprepared and broken New York City. Take your tales of woe elsewhere.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
panther361 4/10/2020 11:05:27 AM (No. 375021)
This has happened before, but I agree, there is no need to broadcast a necessary awful job. There is much more news on which to report.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/10/2020 11:16:56 AM (No. 375040)
Business Insider is a lefty digital bad-news rag. Their only "business" is socialism.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/10/2020 11:19:05 AM (No. 375045)
Subtext: Orange Man bad and leaves good citizens rotting in the street. E S and D.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/10/2020 11:48:56 AM (No. 375083)
No respect for the deceased. How about cremation? Doesn't Fredo own crematorium? It's the next venture capital upside opportunity to never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/10/2020 12:01:16 PM (No. 375101)
NYC, always some new reason to abhor that place.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/10/2020 12:37:42 PM (No. 375178)
This is a good way to get rid of people mafia style. Leftists, marxists with government power have nothing on gangs and mafia.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Faithfully 4/10/2020 12:39:24 PM (No. 375183)
This is Pauper's Field. Unclaimed bodies are buried here. Have been for centuries. Nothing would stop me from claiming a loved one's remains. (I have been down that road). The media is evil.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/10/2020 1:01:25 PM (No. 375227)
150 people died in NYC every day in 2015, you know from stuff like heart attacks, pneumonia, cancer, violence, etc.
NYC started burying people on Hart Island in 1868. There are over 1 million people buried there.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
padiva 4/10/2020 1:19:47 PM (No. 375253)
It's a better idea than digging up Central Park.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/10/2020 2:17:48 PM (No. 375303)
They are buried 3 deep in a carefully laid out grid and have been for over 150 years. They know where to find each one to return should a family member surface and want the remains back. Can’t do that if cremated.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/10/2020 2:21:10 PM (No. 375305)
Ok. Everybody together now. You know the Lying media will say it.
The bodies are stacking up like cordwood!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 4/10/2020 3:35:08 PM (No. 375387)
Unclaimed bodies? Why not just say homeless. The vast majority of whom had underlying medical issues to begin with. I'm still wondering just how many of these virus deaths were actually the result of the virus, and not some other underlying condition made worse by the virus.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/10/2020 5:53:52 PM (No. 375497)
I think right now, bodies should be cremated.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/10/2020 11:56:59 PM (No. 375748)
God rest their souls, but I have a feeling that in New York they'll still be voting from the grave.
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