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Number of unclaimed bodies triples in Racine; official blames economy, culture
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By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
Jan. 3, 2012 9:48 a.m. |(30) Comments
The number of unclaimed dead bodies tripled in Racine County last year, from the typical three or four to a dozen.
Medical Examiner Tom Terry told the Journal Times it's not always because the deceased are unidentified or have no relatives; sometimes the next of of kin just refuses to take responsibility, and the county picks up the cost of burial or cremation.
"The reverence toward the dead is not what it used to be," Terry told the newspaper.
Milwaukee County did not experience a similar spike in unclaimed bodies, said Karen Damagalski, an official with the medical examiner's office. There were about five, she said, about average. She credited the county's program of covering the cost of burial or cremation for those relatives who can't afford a funeral.
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