DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.
Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.
A few things I learned from this article:
A) Apparently it costs $700 to cremate someone. Seems a bit high.
B) I guess when you work at a morgue, policies like "first-arrived, first-buried" are commonplace.
C) The fact that 66 bodies are left unclaimed in Detroit (or any major city) doesn't really surprise me. When you take into account homeless people, and the condition of the economy, I could see the number being much higher.
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