Unclaimed Kin in Los Angeles Piling Up
Not all of Evergreen’s permanent residents get visitors, however.
For the hundreds of thousands of cremated remains of unclaimed kin buried in a nearby potter’s field, deemed as the Los Angeles County Crematorium and Cemetery, there’s nothing more than a simple marker denoting the year they were put back in the earth. Their names don’t live on tombstones; rather, they are linked with the almost 5,000 other unclaimed bodies currently on the L.A. County Coroner’s list.
Though technology has allowed the number of cases where family hasn’t been located to decrease in the last four years, the unclaimed log, which dates back to the 1960s, has grown longer as more and more relatives under the strain of the newly dubbed “Great Recession” find they cannot afford costs involved in private ceremonies and burials.
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