Some #Canadian provinces have recorded a rise in #unclaimed#dead bodies in the past few years, with next of kin citing #funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains.
This has prompted at least one province to build a new storage facility, while demand for #MemorialFundraisers surged.
The overall cost of a funeral in #Canada at the top end has increased to about US$8,800 from about US$6,000 in 1998, industry trade group estimates showed.
In 1959, 5 yrs after its construction, the Malpassant Dam regulating the Reyran river, catastrophically collapsed. A 4m high wave rushed at a speed of 70km/h through the area, destroying 2 villages.
They were told his body was found in a parking lot and that he'd died of an overdose. The body was cremated, death certificate recorded, ashes collected - and then they got a call in December saying it was all a mistake 😳
I slept so poorly last night (not enough sleep, lots of muscle pains etc.) that my brain feels like its full of radioactive bees that look more like gelatin blobs than bugs. They smear around my skull like tiny buzzing slugs and whisper "Oh, if you could just nap now."
Classes had just resumed at #Iowa’s Perry High School.
The attack, which unfolded at Perry High School just after 7:30 a.m. local time, led to the death of an unnamed sixth-grader, according to Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Division of Criminal Investigation at the Iowa Department of Public Safety. It was not immediately clear why that victim, a student at Perry #Middle#School, was at the