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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/
captain queeg
(10,187 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)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)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)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)The days of "one body, one hole" may be near an end with this disease.
Military cemeteries already stack burial vaults.