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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:44 PM Apr 2020

NYC MAY HAVE TO USE PARK FOR BURIALS ... Trenches Dug for Line of Caskets

The number of deceased due to the coronavirus in New York City is becoming too much for hospitals, morgues and cemeteries to handle ... so the city is bracing for a shockingly sad solution -- using a park for temporary burials.

Mark D. Levine -- Chair of the NYC Council health committee -- says they'll soon need to begin "temporary interment" ... in which he says trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line.

Levine says ... "It will be done in a dignified, orderly --and temporary -- manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take." He clarifies this is a contingency plan, but if the death rate does not drop soon ... it will be necessary.

He claims the need for this makeshift burial site stems from the fact that the city morgue -- along with the hospital morgues and additional refrigerated trailers being used during the pandemic -- are all full or close to full ... and funeral homes and cemeteries are overburdened, as well.

Levine says the goal here is to avoid what Italy has gone through ... "where the military was forced to collect bodies from churches and even off the streets."

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/06/nyc-parks-burials-trenches-dug-caskets-temporary-interment-coronavirus/

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NYC MAY HAVE TO USE PARK FOR BURIALS ... Trenches Dug for Line of Caskets (Original Post) mfcorey1 Apr 2020 OP
Wow. Shit getting real. Nt captain queeg Apr 2020 #1
Very disturbing Rorey Apr 2020 #2
Gov. Cuomo denied any knowledge of this when asked Totally Tunsie Apr 2020 #3
This doesn't seem credible. Will wait and see. Alex4Martinez Apr 2020 #4
"Temporary interment"? Make it permanent, add a memorial park. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #5

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
2. Very disturbing
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:48 PM
Apr 2020

This has got to be so hard on the families and loved ones who have a need to adhere to customs and beliefs concerning death.

Cremation is my choice, but I respect that it's not for everyone.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
3. Gov. Cuomo denied any knowledge of this when asked
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:05 PM
Apr 2020

about it during his press conference today, He also turned to others in attendance, and no one there was aware of any such plan.

Stay tuned??

Alex4Martinez

(2,193 posts)
4. This doesn't seem credible. Will wait and see.
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:06 PM
Apr 2020

There are refrigerated warehouses that make more sense.
I'll bet it's a bit of fake news, sorry to say.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,339 posts)
5. "Temporary interment"? Make it permanent, add a memorial park.
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 02:09 PM
Apr 2020

The days of "one body, one hole" may be near an end with this disease.

Military cemeteries already stack burial vaults.

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