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Recession Gothic: too many corpses at the Body Farm. It's a "body overload":
"We're seeing an increase in families who can't afford the expense of a funeral," Davidson County Chief Medical Examiner Bruce Levy said.
That's Tennessee. But it's also national, as "[c]ities across the U.S. are reporting morgues at capacity because families can't afford funerals."
(via Glenn Reynolds)
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