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Bringing dignity in death to unclaimed bodies

The sight of the body of an elderly man lying on the road, just outside the NTR Hospital at Anakapalli, with no one willing to touch it, during the first wave of COVID-19 brought a total transformation in a young man. After the pandemic, I started cremating unclaimed bodies,” Mr. Tarun told The Hindu. “After the pandemic, I decided to …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Unclaimed dead bodies are often "donated" to science — but it’s not always consensual

Salon

Working with cadavers in an anatomy lab is often a humbling and monumental moment in a doctor’s career. “The use of somebody's body, even after their death, without their consent is in tension with many of our commonly accepted norms of best ethical practices in medicine,” Shupe told Salon in a phone interview. “It's not something that someone else enforces …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Horror as veterans' bodies are carved up and sold for parts without families' permission: 'Heads went for $649, torsos for $900 and legs for $341'

Daily Mail

Modern-day grave robbers in Texas have seized unclaimed bodies belonging to veterans and sold their limbs for profit without the consent or knowledge from their grieving family members. Honey was among the 2,350 people whose remains were sent to the body donation program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort-Worth. His body parts were then sold …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Yet on this October week in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 32 members of his family who were killed in Israeli air raids last Sunday. “We often find this during our work, even just night …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Balasore train accident: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corp to dispose of 28 unclaimed bodies

India TV News

Balasore train accident: Four months after the harrowing train tragedy in Odisha, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has initiated a process of disposing of unclaimed bodies. "We have issued an SOP for the scientific disposal of the unclaimed bodies of those who were killed in the triple train accident. Sources said the BMC initiated the process after the Central Bureau of …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Odisha train accident: Unclaimed bodies pileup crunch in morgues

Hindustan Times

A photograph of his son clutched tightly to his chest on Sunday afternoon, Krushna Chandra Sahoo grew increasingly frantic as the day wore on. He tried to look closely at the mangled bodies, lying in white shrouds in geometrical, motionless lines, but his 38 year old son Jagdish Sahoo was not to be found. Two days after the Chennai bound …

Odisha Balasore Unclaimed Bodies

2 years, 6 months ago

Anatomy classes hit as private medical colleges face shortage of cadavers

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Private medical colleges in the city are having difficulty teaching anatomy due to a shortage of cadavers. The availability of cadavers in medical institutions for teaching has been plagued by long-standing allegations of corruption and a lack of clearly defined procedures to secure unclaimed bodies from morgues. "We are trying to devise some way of liberalising the practice so …

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4 years, 6 months ago

‘Search your soul’: Bengal Governor on video of mistreatment of decomposed bodies

Hindustan Times

The issue of decomposed body, allegedly of a Covid-19 patient, being mistreated in West Bengal has brought the ruling Trinamool Congress in the crosshairs of the Opposition and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. In our society dead body is accorded highest respect-rituals r performed as per tradition,” Dhankhar said in one of the tweets on Thursday. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Muzaffarpur skeleton case: Place was used for cremation of unclaimed bodies, says DM

India Today

Five days after the remains of human skeleton were found behind the compound of Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, the district magistrate of the area said that the spot where the skeletons were found was used to perform the last rites of unclaimed bodies. It was found that last rites of unclaimed bodies are performed on …

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