No one is quite sure what to do with them. The United States has no uniform system for managing the unclaimed. There is no federal law outlining what steps to take, and many states do not have clear procedures, leaving individual medical examiners to make decisions about how to best deal with the bodies.
As a result, examiners without money to simply bury or cremate the remains are resorting to inventive—and strange—solutions. Among the unclaimed bodies processed in the United States, some are the unidentified remains from missing-persons cases like the ones Krebs works on, but the majority belong to people who were estranged from their family while they were alive, according to Kenna Quinet, an associate professor at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis who co-wrote one of the only academic articles on unclaimed bodies.
The unclaimed population skews poor and homeless. Policy makers have rarely backed programs that would set clear terms for the management of the unclaimed, which has left coroners to cycle through a grab bag of disposition methods once a body enters their custody. Los Angeles County has one of the more organized systems. If by that point no family has reached out, the cremains are buried alongside more than a thousand others in an annual interfaith funeral. But because of a lack of funding, counties cannot always afford to pay funeral directors to cremate or bury unclaimed bodies.
Though Slocum explained there are many states that require that the names of the unclaimed are recorded, so there is a way to figure out how many are unclaimed in different regions around the country. For example, in Los Angeles, back in they buried 1, people in their annual burial ceremony. There will always be unclaimed bodies, but the systems around the abandoned, indigent, and unclaimed needs to be improved. But again, this is just an estimate, since not all unclaimed bodies are entered into these types of databases, and not all unclaimed bodies are missing persons.
Nor are these databases connected. The political realities of death and race in America also adds to the difficulty in accessing the number of unclaimed. In the American South for example, activists are trying to find and record the forgotten bodies of Mexican migrants, many of whom travel with few documents.
Elsewhere, many of the unclaimed come from lower-socio economic areas, where families who cannot afford the cost of a funeral may not claim a body. There will always be unclaimed bodies in America, but the systems in place to handle the abandoned, indigent, and unclaimed clearly needs improvement. Some tips on how facilities and institutions can improve the situation include prioritizing advanced care planning , documenting wishes and claimant information , and creating a plan within the organization that follows the reasonable search.
All facilities involved with the unclaimed need to communicate more and help and support each other. So, this is what happens to unclaimed bodies in America. It is important we remember and consider the moral and cultural aspects of treatment of our unclaimed bodies in order to maintain ethical standards appropriate for all. I have no interest in spending 20 to 40 thousand on a burial site not even dollars to be put in the ground or cremated specially that I am the last person my family thinks of when they wish to celebrate something but I am the first they think of when money is needed.
My oldest son right now is the only one to whom I feel any loyalty but he is manipulated by my ex to the point that he is pretty much useless has no plans for the future and seems not interested in developing any type of career and try to get a job in his field in which he got a degree or something related to it. My ex is a real piece of work while we were ok financially she was great but as financially thing took a bad turn due to the financial crisis we had because of me being unemployed due to down sizing of the company I worked for and because being unable to keep a job due to my illness I began to notice that she had been living a double life for quite a few years and I trusted her too much and my eyes were open way to late to be prepare for anything.
I do not expect my ex to claim any financial responsibility over my death since she filed for divorce as I was lying in the recovery room after spending 3 weeks in the I C U and advised me that she had filed for divorce.
I do not want to be a burden to my son on my death so what is the best way to abandon by body and not have anyone come after my older son for the expenses. True I am no angel I never claimed to be but I have never betrayed anyone nor abandoned anyone on their time of need but obviously it is definitely time I start to prepare myself for the worst and hopefully it will not be so bad.
I do not want a burial, it is just too expensive, I do not want to be cremated at a funeral home because that is also expensive. I have read in some articles that you can be cremated for around dollars but no one advertises where those prices can be found I wish to donate by body to science so they can maybe get some benefit out of it but not sure if there are any costs involved. I do have some assets but like I said I have no interest in spending any money to dispose of my body when I am dead.
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Worldwide, funeral homes , cemeteries, crematories, hospitals, and other institutions will initially use any available space to house unclaimed cremated remains. Unfortunately, far too many funeral homes, for example, have what's known internally as the "cremation closet"—a spot in a non-public area where unclaimed urns and temporary cremation containers are stored while the firm attempts to arrange pick-up or delivery of the cremated remains. Depending upon the number of sets in their possession, however, firms will also store unclaimed cremated remains in filing cabinets, basements, garages and even rented offsite storage units.
It's important to understand that these businesses do not resort to these ad hoc storage locations as a sign of disrespect toward the deceased or their loved ones. As noted earlier, every effort is made to reunite the remains with their families, next-of-kin, friends, etc.
But, over time, many companies simply accumulate too many sets of unclaimed cremated remains and need to do something with them. Depending upon various factors, many funeral homes, cemeteries, and other institutions will seek a more permanent manner of housing unclaimed cremated remains.
In such cases, these businesses will bury the urns and temporary cremation containers in their possession in a single mass grave in a cemetery or memorial park. Sometimes, the company will even commission a headstone bearing the names of the deceased for installation above the gravesite. In other situations, firms will decide to inter their unclaimed cremated remains within a columbarium. In either case, the funeral home, cemetery, crematory, hospital or other institution will usually maintain detailed records indicating where each specific cremated individual in their charge rests just in case a family member, friend or loved one shows up later to claim the cremated remains.
Finally, depending upon the state or federal laws governing the disposal of deceased human remains, some providers will scatter the unclaimed cremated remains in their possession after a specified period.
In Massachusetts, for example, state law allows a funeral establishment to scatter unclaimed cremated remains in a cemetery area designated for that purpose after 12 months provided, as noted above, that the business maintains a permanent record of this disposition.
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