The Miami Herald
Miami-Dade FL
Dec 5, 2010
Funeral home storeroom holds 407 forgotten souls
Behind a bolted door, in the back of an old mortuary, is a purgatory on earth. Ashes of the dead sit in shoebox-sized containers on dusty shelves, cremated at the behest of loved ones who never retrieved them.
So now, they are kept inside a cooled 10-by-10 room. Current occupancy is 407 …..
Local funeral directors say a handful of families leave their kin behind each year. When that happens, funeral home owners are left with a pile of calcium and a quandary, guided by morality and legality: What to do with the ashes?
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