Hospitals, coroner's offices and funeral homes have struggled with excess bodies overflowing their storage areas – a problem that often falls to crematoriums to ease.
in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, had to rent a 32-foot-long refrigerated trailer to store bodies awaiting cremation. The crematorium he usually contracts with is backed up with bodies, even though they've been working nonstop, he said.
The funeral home has had to store more than 60 bodies at its two locations. The home's seven licensed cremation operators are working 12- to 14-hour shifts to keep pace with demand, he said.Staying Apart, Together:The outbreak has taken a personal toll on the funeral home: The office manager lost her dad to COVID-19 and one of the drivers lost his mom. Gibson buried his uncle last week, another victim of the outbreak.
Bodies overflowed the storage room. At one point, there were 60 bodies in caskets scattered throughout the crematorium, he said.With the death toll on a steady climb, executives at Green-Wood had to put a cap on cremations at 25 per day. As of this week, the cemetery was booked for cremations through mid-May, Barna said.
Most cremations these days are what's known as"direct cremations," where the casket goes straight from the hearse to the retort without ceremony, he said. The retort is heated to between 1,400 and 1,800 degrees F and cremations could take between two to four hours to complete, depending on the size and material of the casket."We have gently asked [funeral directors] to try to reduce the number of wood caskets they bring us," he said.
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