What do you think the sorry state of affairs of having unclaimed human remains still in the morgue in New Orleans? Do you ever think they will be claimed? Do you think that forensics could be used to recreate their features to reunite tham with family? Someone should recognize them, don't you think?
2007-08-29 08:34:57 · 20 answers · asked by slk29406 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
It was in todays internet news.
2007-08-29 09:37:09 · update #1
I do think that there is a fund for buriel available for the deceased in NO, so it would be of no expense to families.
2007-08-29 09:38:46 · update #2
we don't realize really how many of people have-NO- family at all left, they do have a fund where the state buries them, just in the past month, we had two deaths in this county, where his wife and child died first, and at age 92, was no one left, except a sister in a nursing home five hundred miles away.And the other was a only child, that never married, at 68, only a handful of people showed up.
2007-08-29 10:16:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read this as well. This is how I think! If I had a loved one out who was missing after something like Katrina...I would NEVER stop looking for them! Now, if I knew they still had bodies, I would work my backside off and hire someone to do DNA on each one, until I found my loved one!
Don't always believe everything you read! Texas is dealing with many from New Orleans and even their gangs! Many of these folks were given housing here, money and stocked refrigerators and cabinets. Some chose to find work, others...well, let's just say they went through the money in a hurry and was demanding more!
Look, it was tragic and it still is to a degree. But, we all know we have to stand on our own two feet! We can never depend upon the government or, others to get us all we need. Even in the face of horrific situations, when we make a choice to live in an area which is surrounded by water, we have got to use our heads and realize that it is a high possibility of this sort of thing happening! It is a matter of if you are prepared. Many were not. So, now, they want the government to make it right! There's only so much the government can do when the people themsleve are NOT willing to go the extra mile as well!
2007-08-29 17:50:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live in Australia and when I heard about the way the American government reacted to New Orleans cyclone I was horrified. It sent a message to the world that America could and would attack or sent troups into any other country at a moment notice, but to rescue their own people from a flood took days. In Australia rescue groups are there within hours of cyclone wantings. As an Australian I am not surprised that there is still 30 bodies unclaimed in New Orleans.
2007-09-01 02:49:01 · answer #3 · answered by Lock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd really like to see the stats on this. The usual process in the morgue is to make an attempt to identify a body and after a reasonable length of time, the deceased is buried in what used to be called Potters Field. Even a morgue has it's limitations on storage space. Could you state the source for your question?
2007-08-29 15:46:05 · answer #4 · answered by phlada64 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's really sad. You would think that they would lay the remains to rest. I am just outside of New Orleans in Slidell, have been here since the storm. Trying to help with the re-building.
I do have to say one thing though, seems that the majority of people from here have no respect for life, the killings every day are unbelievable.
We were recently working on a duplex in New Orleans. We had 4 men that we had hired. At three o'clock in the afternoon, all of a sudden all the crack dealers hit the street. The men who were working for us started loading the tools into the truck. They told us it was time to go. That the boys from the hood would kill us if we weren't out of there in the next 15 to 20 minutes. We left!!
Seems to me that the people here are tribal, they never leave their own hood. It can be pretty scary at times.
I anxiousshly await our departure.
Right now we are in a RV park in Slidell and on Lock down. Seems that the police busted a man with 500.00 worth of crack. He broke loose and is hiding in one of the fema trailers in the RV park. My doors are locked and my shot gun is by my side.
There are over 500 fema trailers in this park. The government is paying 500.00 a month per trailer. The occupants get drunk at least three times a day. Passed out by noon, then again around three to four oclock, then again in the evening. They steal anything that isn't tied down and locked.
About two weeks ago, one of the men here attacked the little girl that manages the RV park, he beat her up really bad. Just so he could steal the keys to the coke machine, so he could steal the quarters out of the machine. Now the police and fema are running police checks on occupants, and if they have been arrested since Katrina, they are asked to leave. Finally, they are starting to remove a few fema trailers.
My husband and I are the only people in the park that I am aware of that own their own RV and actually pay rent. You cannot find a RV park that has a space because of all the fema trailers, many of them are un-occupied and have never been used, though the government continues to pay 500.00 a month for them to be parked here.
I would like to also say that there are some good people in New Orleans, they are just out numbered by drug slinging low life's
2007-08-30 15:39:28 · answer #5 · answered by Cheryl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not aware of this.
Yes, forensics can recreate features. Did you ever wonder if the 30 might be homeless or without family of any kind or could be a criminal in which case, no one would claim the body.
Nevertheless, it is very sad.
2007-08-29 17:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by makeitright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its awful. Surely someone is missing a relative that lived there during that time. Maybe they were people with no relatives.
Perhaps if they have the money the state will take on forensics to help ID the people. Such a sad shame.
2007-08-29 18:59:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The state of affairs and the affairs of state in New Orleans are so disgustingly poor that there is no accounting for anything anymore. They probably haven't even identified the bodies and no one is going to go to the expense to do it. Politics in the country is a slip-shod mish-mash of regurgitated chaos.
2007-09-01 00:25:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
surely by now they have all the tissue samples and dna they could get on these poor souls, so a burial is long overdue. use an identifying number to match dna with the proper corpse, and bury these poor people already! there have been cases that have been identified years after, so there's always hope that the person will be identified in the future.
2007-08-29 16:50:27 · answer #9 · answered by sugarbabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. I think it's pathetic.
30 is not many.
Is it so difficult for the govt to burry them, and give announcement that relatives may dig it up later, if they wish?
2. Maybe those 30 have no relatives who cares about them, or just simply difficult, accept the death and expect the govt to take care .
It's the same : pathetic for not able to make a quick good decission.
Maybe its the usual business here: No ticky no laundry .
2007-08-29 21:11:47 · answer #10 · answered by bill s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋