Detroit - Too broke to bury their dead

Summary

October 1, 2009: In Detroit, dead bodies are piling up in the morgues as the high unemployment in the city means that many people can no longer afford either burial or cremation for their relatives - and the funds of the county to bury unclaimed dead were depleted in June of 2009. Thus, the bodies pile up in the freezers.

See Also

• News: 'I Never Could Have Imagined' - other appalling treatment of corpses

Source

Bibliography

1. Original article

Game and Story Use

• Those fools! Proper disposal of corpses is vital for preventing a zombie menace!
• Also, once you have a pile of anything awaiting disposal, people tend to add stuff to it … what better place to hide a corpse than in a large stockpile of corpses.
  • Probably better that than people start stealing them… maybe …