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  • a  not buried

  • Chris Hondros Getty Have economic times gotten so bad that some of the dead are going unburied? Several large counties across the country are experiencing unprecedented increases .
  • Even the dead are not immune to the credit squeeze, as many funeral directors, citing liquidity problems, leave bodies unburied.
  • As times get tougher, more survivors are leaving the bodies of their loved ones unclaimed, unburied and uncremated and strapped local governments are finding it harder to .
News & Articles

  • Philippine Typhoon Haiyan Not ‘Worst Storm Ever’; Bangladesh Cyclone Killed Half Million People In 1970
    Super-typhoon Haiyan has carved a path of unimaginable destruction over the central Philippines – local officials estimate that up to 10,000 people have perished and hundreds of thousands of others have become homeless. The city of Tacloban has virtually disappeared off the map, as unburied corpses lay unclaimed on the streets. Even worse, rescue efforts by the Manila government and foreign aid ...
    Nov. 11, 2013 - International Business Times
Quotes

  • David Cameron in Xinhua
    Commenting immediately after the chancellor made his address, Cameron said, "The last Labour government left the dead unburied, this Labour government leaves the debts unpaid."
  • Guy Gavriel Kay in Globe and Mail
    That started me on my book,Kay says. "The idea that, 1,400 years later, these bones are unburied, and a 20th-century businessman felt a pious and psychological impulse to do what he could - 1,400 years later! - to lay to rest those ghosts....

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