Only a fraction of the over 2,500 missing are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come.
Category: Morgues and Mortuaries
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Nepal Turns to Mass Burials, as Thousands Remain Missing from Floods
The New York Times – On the Runway: -
Inside the Funeral Home for New York’s Elite
Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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A Widow Said Her Husband Was Left in a Drinks Cooler After Dying on a Cruise
Marilyn Jones accused Celebrity Cruises in a lawsuit of storing her husband’s body in a cooler rather than the ship’s morgue and allowing it to become “horrifically decomposed.”
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As Cases Spread, China’s Low Covid Death Toll Convinces No One
The New York Times – Business:China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.