The indigent burial site at Homewood Memorial Gardens. (Credit: Cook County Sheriff’s Office)
UPDATED 02/17/11 6:00 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – Cook County sheriff’s officials have found bodies stacked on top of each other – some buried eight at a time — at a south suburban cemetery.
As CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says Homewood Memorial Gardens, at 600 Ridge Rd. in Homewood, desecrated the bodies of people who couldn’t afford to purchase burial plots.
Dart says he is appalled and disgusted about the indigent burials. The bodies were layered as many as eight high before they began decomposing on top of one another.
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The identities of the people in the indigent burial area are largely unknown. But even if someone were looking for their loved-ones, there would be no way to find them, Dart said.
“We have been informed people are buried eight deep out there,” Dart said. “There is no rhyme or reason. There is no grid system. You couldn’t find people if you wanted to find them.”
Homewood Memorial Gardens told CBS 2 they keep records for all indigent burials and provided a glimpse of records from 1980 all the way to 2011. Index cards show each person’s burial lot and row number.
When CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot asked employee Kelly McCarthy if an indigent person’s burial spot could be located, she said, “Yes, within a foot of each way.”
The cemetery’s owner spoke to CBS 2 by phone. He says there’s nothing in his current county contract that says coffins of the indigent can’t be stacked on top of each other for burial. He says it’s a question of economics. It costs $239 for an indigent burial. A single plot costs $2,200 per person.
But Dart said the practices are a violation of the cemetery’s contract with county government to bury indigent people
“From a law enforcement we were disturbed,” he said. “From a human standpoint, we were absolutely appalled.”
The practice echoes the headline-grabbing scandal two years ago at another south suburban cemetery.
At Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Dart’s office found piles of bones, old caskets and vaults dumped on trash heaps at the back of the property. They were dumped as part of an alleged plot to resell grave plots at the historic cemetery.
But even though Gov. Pat Quinn approved new state regulations for cemetery oversight last year, Dart said he saw the latest problems at Homewood Memorial Gardens about a month ago.
Dart said thousands of bodies have been stacked for burial since the cemetery won the contract for indigent burials in 1980.
A wooden casket containing unclaimed remains. (Credit: Cook County Sheriff's Office)
He also said unidentified limbs and bones examined by law enforcement authorities were turned over to the cemetery, which simply dumped them into the coffins of babies whose parents were indigent. Sometimes, the bodies have been mixed with animal parts before being tossed into the mounds.
Dart said there is nothing requiring law enforcement agencies to take DNA samples before turning bodies over to cemeteries. He said this is a shame, given that there are dozens of cold case homicides in Cook County which at any point could be tied to the bodies stacked in the burial ground.
Dart is calling for new state legislation that calls for changes in some burial practices that will make investigations easier.
He said given that there are only about 250 indigent burials a year, there is no reason why they cannot be handled properly and respectfully.
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There is a money shortage, dead people don’t care.
February 17, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Agreed.
February 17, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Make sure FR, Brian and DONTCARE all get buried there when they die, too, since it doesn’t matter.
February 17, 2011 at 5:39 pm
“BRING OUT YEH DEAD!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Why don’t they just burn all the bodies though seriously?
February 18, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Yes, however the county pays full price for individual burials, the cemetary pockets the money and then performs the burials on the “cheap”.
February 18, 2011 at 8:26 am
As a funeral home employee I can assure you, the county pays FAR less than cost.
February 18, 2011 at 9:13 am
Where in the article did it say the County paid full price? If it’s not specified in the contract, they have the right to do what is economically best for them as long as they abide by the contract. The people are dead and their deaths didnt mean anything to the living or they would not have been buried by the County, they would have been buried by their loved ones. Their soul has departed so it doesn’t really matter what happens to the vessel that carried it.
February 18, 2011 at 10:44 am
Does it cost more to bury indigent people correctly? No. This isn’t about the funeral director and their costs.
February 18, 2011 at 12:05 pm
midwestnorwegian, did you not read the article? It says plainly that a regular urial is almost 10 times as pricey as an indigent.
February 18, 2011 at 12:56 pm
It’s spelled cemetery. No “a”
February 18, 2011 at 4:36 pm
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
- Isaac Asimov
http://911essentials.com
February 18, 2011 at 8:28 am
Do you have a soul?
February 18, 2011 at 9:39 am
You don’t have a soul – You are a soul.
February 19, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Hey Stinky, You have a body and a soul. The body dies and the soul lives on either in heaven or hell.
February 19, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Spoken like an Illinois Communist.
February 18, 2011 at 11:33 am
I guess we shouldn’t expect decency of people from Illinois.
They’re Obamatrons, after all.
February 18, 2011 at 11:38 am
You are 100% correct Michael.
February 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Bet they all voted!
February 18, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Three times. And realize the “people buried in THIS part of the cemetary have just as much right to vote as those over there”
February 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Can’t blame you for making that gneralization. However, I am not an obamatron-I am, frankly, ashamed of him.
February 18, 2011 at 10:06 pm
RE: Brad “Bet they all voted!”
of course the dead voted its illinois and of course they voted multiple times
February 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I wonder if the they have received many complaints from the deceased.
February 18, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Actually, they only come out usually every election, I’ll bet each one voted for Obama twice ;) Emmanuel’s gonna lose a shiiitteload of votes now…
February 18, 2011 at 11:12 pm
why are people so upset about this ? The bodies were just waiting to VOTE…..Vote early vote often…..the Chicago way….
February 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Funny and very true!
February 18, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Right, 8 bodies stacked in a grave = Cook County Vertical Voting Booth. Talk about straight ticket voting!
February 18, 2011 at 1:45 pm
It’s Bush’s fault…
February 18, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Agreed… The city thinks its gonna get first class service for $250 a body …yeah Right!! The city/county is at blame for not doing a 4 hour “should cost” model and awarding the business based on what a proper burial should cost. The City/ County awarded it to the lowest bidder period. Lets all buy 10 cent hamburgers and be shocked at the quality of the meat……
February 18, 2011 at 12:38 pm
“Lets all buy 10 cent hamburgers and be shocked at the quality of the meat… ”
McSorley, I believe you’ve stumbled onto a solution to BOTH problems… 10 cent “hamburgers”, made with Soylent Green. “It’s MORE than a sandwich,… it’s PEOPLE!”
February 18, 2011 at 2:06 pm
It does not matter. These poor people had no monney, no relatives, no worries. Their bodies are dead; if you believe in souls and such nonsense, their “souls” are wherever you think they are. Why wasn’t cremation the option since it only costs about $100 a pop and takes up almost no space. I am being cremated for $150 and scattered at sea by my friends for the cost of boat fuel and a few cases of beer – what is the big Fffffing deal.
February 19, 2011 at 1:22 am
Is death for profit OK ?
February 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Not to worry,……….they all will be voting for Rahm Dead Fish for mayor……..3 times.
February 19, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Is anyone surprised? This is Chicago. In Chicago, everything is o.k. and above the law.
February 19, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Why the hell to we waste real estate burying indigents anyhow? Cremate them..
February 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Because it is proper and, I believe we are a proper society.
February 17, 2011 at 7:10 pm
As OoogaBooga mentioned, there is nothing improper, disrespectful, immoral, or unethical about cremation. In fact, some religions and spiritual faiths regard cremation as more appropriate than burial because it allows the soul to more expediently transcend into the next plane of existence rather allow our remains to anchor us down to our past.
As for the impropriety of our modern society, the funeral industry is an ethically hypocritical and opportunistic racket that thrives on the emotional vulnerability of those suffering through the death of loved ones. That’s not to say we should not bury the dead, but the profit margins a funeral home reaps on the sale of one casket alone is insulting, and if society as a whole were more aware of this we’d be calling our legislators for regulation and begin advocating for funeral norms such as “green burials”, which does not involve the use of toxic chemicals during the embalming process that eventually end up leeching into the earth and water table.
Speaking of, has anyone on this forum researched the city’s water records? There’s a very interesting report available online with results of the chemicals that do not get purified or filtered out at our exemplary water plants here in Chicago.
February 17, 2011 at 9:25 pm
“Proper,” what an amazingly vague and subjective criteria.
Beggars can’t be choosers. I don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to the dead bodies of people who weren’t worth a damn in life. As long as their remains aren’t poisoning the water supply or otherwise posing a risk to others, it doesn’t matter how they are disposed of.
Cremation sounds like a wonderful solution to me. No more body. No more biohazard from HIV, Hep C or anything else. Just clean ash that can be dumped wherever there is a deep enough hole in the ground.
February 18, 2011 at 8:01 am
What cloud do you reside on?
February 18, 2011 at 8:21 am
Then offer up your personal money to buy them a $2200 burial plot, and another $900 for a headstone. Otherwise cremate them.
February 18, 2011 at 9:12 am
Kill two birds with one stone. “Bury” the homeless and then feed the homeless… “Soylent Green”
February 18, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Why is it “proper”? Because you say so? Because ancients believed it was the gateway to eternal life? Cremate them.
February 18, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Where did this “proper” in relation to burials come from? It’s a made up thing to do, and its totally wasteful. Look at the world today. The proper thing to do is NOT BE WASTEFUL.
February 18, 2011 at 6:14 pm
excellent suggestion!
February 18, 2011 at 8:27 am
Because IF the indigent’s death ever became a questionable case, ie needing a re-verification of ID, foul play, etc, the body can be exhumed and re-examined. Cremation destroys all possible evidence.
February 18, 2011 at 9:16 am
I truely don’t think an overdosed junkie will ever need exhumation to verify that he/she died of an overdose. This is what tha VAST MAJORITY of the indigent bodies are.
February 18, 2011 at 9:24 am
Waste all that money so 1 case in a million can be investigated? Bad plan.
February 18, 2011 at 4:41 pm
I don’t think you can legally vote in Chicago if you are cremated.
February 18, 2011 at 11:13 am
Actually, you can, but only once.
Naturally, the Democrats have registered each corpse at least eight times, so cremation is out of the question.
February 18, 2011 at 11:41 am
You are correct, you will leave too big of a carbon footprint in the voting booth.
February 18, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Totally agree! Burial is for the arrogant. I will take up space and it will cost a lot. Fow what? Rotting meat? The soul (if such a thing exists) is long gone. Not only that, the religious argument that they need their bodies again. If God exists, surely it can remake your body from all the atoms it contains now. Burial is for the weak in faith.
That said, the coroner should be taking DNA samples before disposal because they might very well solve a cold case later.
February 18, 2011 at 12:18 pm
“If God exists”? Sounds like you have some soulserving and things to figure out prior to your death.
February 18, 2011 at 1:18 pm
In the Christian Religion, you do not need your bodies. If you are a dead belliever, God will make you whole again a the time of resurection. I don’t know about other religious beliefs regarding burial.
February 19, 2011 at 9:51 am
Haten, cremation IS a proper burial.
Stacked under someone and 6 of their friends isn’t.
Heck, if one HAS to bury them (which is weird and creepy anyway with the bugs and worms and all) bury them standing up! Takes less room. Japanese figured that out long ago.
February 17, 2011 at 8:10 pm
You are the only one who has taken a position that would be so much easier to take…but some of the comments left clearly indicates that too many people are without compassion. Sad that the yuppie mentality is still around…
February 18, 2011 at 10:04 am
This is just disgusting! Imagine if it were your family members…Is this what you would want for them? Just because a person doesn’t have money doesn’t mean they deserve to be disrespected like this. What a sick society we live in these days!
February 17, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Doesn’t seem like their relatives cared about them when they were alive.
February 18, 2011 at 7:40 am
are you volunteering to pay for the indigents ‘proper’ burial or are you concerned that the family doesnt give a damn about them or are you a llib who wants everyone else to pay your bills and those of your indigent lovers and friends. Tell us please.
February 18, 2011 at 9:45 am
its just a useless empty husk of carbon based material.. get rid of it and place a memory plaque somewhere nice so people who cared about then can remember. cremation is a good way and safe way to dispose of a body without a lot of fuss and leftovers.
February 18, 2011 at 10:15 am
Hmm…maybe we should do this for the living — replace everyone — except the elites of course — with memory plaques? Cremate everyone else living or not in the interest of economy and efficiency.
February 18, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Disrespected? Most disrespected themselves in life to wind up this way. You can’t fix stupid and you cannot cure all the ills of humanity. It isn’t a sick society, it is life. Life is tough, and its’ tougher when you are stupid. You want to do something about this? Then you pay for the funerals. You get a funeral home and do this all on your own dime. You’ll soon get as ‘sick’ as the people you berate.
Life is tough for you, isn’t it?
February 18, 2011 at 10:37 am
Then YOU pay to have them buryed. Why should the cemetery pay for what THEY couldn’t?
February 18, 2011 at 10:55 am
If it was good enough for Mozart, it is good emough for me!
February 18, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Who cares.
February 17, 2011 at 11:03 pm
We need higher taxes so that everyone can be buried with dignity.
February 18, 2011 at 5:29 am
It seems to be the logical step after being taxed to death.
February 18, 2011 at 7:50 am
Careful, you;’ll give Rahm an idea for new taxes. Pull their teeth for the gold! An ultimate death tax!
February 18, 2011 at 10:39 am
bury them standing up to save sspace? hell of an idea!
February 18, 2011 at 7:29 am
Our bodies are not who or what We are after death, it matters not what is done with it. Humans are arrogant.
February 18, 2011 at 7:30 am
All good Democratic voters in Illinois no doubt……
February 18, 2011 at 7:31 am
remember these bodies STILL VOTE in Chicago
February 18, 2011 at 8:08 am
Lol…so true
February 18, 2011 at 9:44 am
Bodies are often stacked in our national cemeteries: husbands and wives will often be stacked in a single plot because the space is just too small to allow each person a plot. Disrespectful? Of course not.
I would think that there would be a greater danger of cave-in, though, with all of these cheap coffins on top of each other, if buiried 8-deep.
A decent wood box, buried underground is a decent burial. Everything else… EVERYTHING… a marker, knowing where the space is, how-many deep the boxes may be… ALL of that is a luxury.
February 18, 2011 at 7:36 am
Take em down to the zoo and feed the lions………..
February 18, 2011 at 7:42 am
Awesome.
February 18, 2011 at 8:35 am
I have room in my basement.
February 18, 2011 at 10:29 am
The CEO of BP had the idea of finding a way to use the remains as some sort of fossil fuel. The pump dispensing this new fuel would be right along the line of BP’s name, which is Body Parts, get it? BP ROFLMAO
February 18, 2011 at 11:14 am
That’s the Chicago way. No dignity for human life. Look at what is happening in Washington now. It is so sad that liberal democrats put human life in the same catergory as dog food.
February 18, 2011 at 7:44 am
No dignity for human LIFE? Aren’t we talking about dead people?!?!
February 18, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Yes We Can Build a http://www.NewNation.org
YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!
February 18, 2011 at 7:49 am
SI SE PUEDE!
SEE HIS PUDDING!
February 18, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Germans ‘reuse’ their plots. Families ‘lease’ the graves, and of course, if the family doesn’t continue the lease the plot is ‘renewed’ (others buried at the site).
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/genealogy/german-faq/part2/section-5.html
February 18, 2011 at 7:50 am
This is also true in Mexico City.
February 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm
There is absolutely nothing about Chicago left untouched by corruption.
February 18, 2011 at 7:51 am
I saw a movie once where the mob rid got rid of their bodies by dumping them in occupied graves. Hmmmm…. anyone check the missing persons lists lately? :-)
February 18, 2011 at 7:51 am
Buried 8 deep= Democratic voting block
February 18, 2011 at 7:52 am
Oh, and more stimulus “shovel ready” jobs, no doubt.
February 18, 2011 at 7:52 am
they finally found the people who voted in the last electon and maybe if they dig deep enough they will find the voters who put jfk in office
February 18, 2011 at 7:56 am
Democrat voters
February 18, 2011 at 8:00 am
The dignity of human life takes another hit, and many of the posters don’t really care. Such a sad commentary on THEIR worth.
February 18, 2011 at 8:01 am
Pretty much what I was thinking. Makes it easier to dig. Them up when its time to go vote for a democrat.
February 18, 2011 at 8:04 am
The issue of not taking DNA samples has nothing to do with the cemetary. It has to do with the cop industry wanting more money to pass around to cronies.
I was disturbed by the video. It shows a serious OSHA violation. The trench sides are vertical, and could collapse on the laborer in the hole, adding an unauthorized corpse to the pile.
I;ve given strict orders that my corpse is to be mailed to someone we dislike.
February 18, 2011 at 8:09 am
It’s not a cemetary, it’s a Democratic precinct rally getting ready to go to the polls.
February 18, 2011 at 8:12 am
lol
February 18, 2011 at 9:47 am
If it’d save my survivors a few bucks, I’d be fine with being stacked. What difference does it make? if the atheists are right, the person won’t exist any more; if we Christians are right, they’ll either be in paradise, and won’t care what became of their earthly bodies, or in Sheol, and will have far worse problems.
February 18, 2011 at 8:15 am
So that’s where they found those Absentee Ballet Voters ?
More to come……………………
February 18, 2011 at 8:21 am
There are mass graves in many places around the world. Go to Berlin and there are several mass graves from WWII with thousands of bodies buried there.
February 18, 2011 at 8:22 am
We have mass graves from the Civil War, mass graves from some disasters from fire, shipwrecks. You don’t have to go far in the United States to find some of these mass graves. It’s not disrespectful, it’s a matter of life. Decaying bodies can promote disease. People have buried or burned bodies for centuries. It’s a fact of life and history. I suggest that those who don’t know this take the time to actually learn about it. Life is tough, it’s tougher when you are stupid.
February 18, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Tom Dart is a grandstander who loves to point the finger of blame at others in order to distract people from the shortcomings in his own organization. In this case, he can’t find a crime to pursue, so why is he doing this? In order to avoid srutiny about the fact that many of these bodies are murder and crime victims, and their cases remain unsolved by HIS department
February 18, 2011 at 8:28 am
Hey Stupid. They are dead.
February 18, 2011 at 8:28 am
The real issue here is whether someone had billed and received payment for services they did not perform.
February 18, 2011 at 8:29 am
They are obviously getting in line to vote for Rahm
February 18, 2011 at 8:33 am
The democrats have run this and other large cities into the ground.
February 18, 2011 at 8:36 am
Merely the ChiTown Lay-Away Plan
for indigents, allowing them to spend more
of their money on cheap wine and smokes.
February 18, 2011 at 8:42 am
Interesting thing. Stacked 8 high and they are still voting.
February 18, 2011 at 8:43 am
” He said this is a shame, given that there are dozens of cold case homicides in Cook County which at any point could be tied to the bodies stacked in the burial ground” One would assume that the police would have investigated the bodies before they were turned over for burials and determined if they were murder victims or not. Rather dumb statement from a professional law enforcement agent. But then again this is Chicago.
February 18, 2011 at 8:47 am
Voters – stack ‘em deep; sell ‘em cheap
February 18, 2011 at 8:49 am
I suspect its part of a grassroots “get out the vote” campaign for the Dems
February 18, 2011 at 8:51 am
It is common practice in Europe to “recycle” graves. If a family member does not continue to pay the ‘lease’ then the grave stone is removed and the grave is reused (the body and coffin is already decomposed). Sounds like a good system to me.
It is an empty shell any way!
February 18, 2011 at 8:54 am
I hope they will still be able to vote.
February 18, 2011 at 8:56 am
Before you bury them make sure you register them to vote.
February 18, 2011 at 8:57 am
The City wants them buried apart in case there is a criminal inquiry, or someone tries to claim them. usually for a year or two. They take photos of their faces for identity purposes. Then they bury on top of them after 5 or so years, at least that’s the way they do it at NYC’s Pottersville. Wikipedia is a great learning tool….when you are killing time at work, lol.
February 18, 2011 at 8:57 am
Better than around here. The elderly who have no one are taken right from the nursing home to a crematory. Their bodies are still warm when they are incinerated.
February 18, 2011 at 9:03 am
Let them be turned to ash.
February 18, 2011 at 9:09 am
Why aren’t they cremated?
February 18, 2011 at 9:16 am
I can’t believe how disrespectful some of you are. My brother was buried there in the same exact situation. I have pictures of them trying to find my brother so we can have him exhumed. There is always a story to go along with something like this. Well, here’s mine. My brother had a really rough life. I can sit here and tell you everything that has happened to my brother, but that would take too long. In the end, he just disappeared. We couldn’t find him. We didn’t know where he was. After a while, with the right phone call, my mother finally found him. He died from cardiac arithmia. He died in a hospital in Berwyn and we never received a phone call. We NEVER GOT A PHONE CALL LETTING US KNOW THAT MY BROTHER WAS DEAD. THE HOSPITAL AND THE POLICE FAILED TO CALL THE FAMILY! My brother was considered ‘unclaimed’. They buried him at Homewood Gardens and I would never want ANYONE to experience what we had to. It was horrible. They took a tape measure to a tree, measured whatever distance, motioned with her arms in a large circle and said that he was ‘somewhere around here’. Somewhere?? Told my sister that the flowers she was holding was just deer food. We wanted the body exhumed so we can have him cremated and to finally give him peace. After them taking unreasonable time to get the body to the funeral home, my sister and I decided to find out what was taking so long. The place was torn up, areas dug up, piles of dirt everywhere they said our brother was. We soon realized that they couldn’t find my brothers body and that’s why he wasn’t at the funeral home yet. We looked in these huge dug up holes and saw all these boxes stacked up on top of each other. The ends of these wooden boxes were popped out because of the impact. We could see the bodies inside these caved in boxes. So, we started taking pictures because we couldn’t believe this was actually happening. Not too much longer, staff members came running telling us to leave. So, for all of you out there saying to feed them to the lions, or that the family must not have cared about them when they were living, please think about how stupid you sound. Because my brother was loved. He was 34 years old when he died. This is just one story. Imagine all the stories you didn’t hear about.
February 18, 2011 at 9:19 am
I hear this all the time: family members not willing to take in a loved one who is “going through difficult times”, but when they die, suddenly they family member was “so loved.” Love is not an emotion, it is an action. If you really cared, you would have taken him in and provided for him. Instead, you left his care to the government who contracted a funeral service to provide a burial for a cost you could not get a union member to get out of bed for. When you look at the state law requirements to bury or cremate someone, you will learn that it does not even come close to covering the cost. Your problem is that you showed up after the fact to find that your brother died a lonely man, so you feel guilty and lash out at those who at least had the compassion to bury him. You should be ashamed and be thankful that at least he was taken care of, which is more than you did for him.
February 18, 2011 at 10:28 am
Give Eddie peace? I think he was beyond caring at the moment. Obviously, your guilt at letting him die alone is getting to you. Should have done more while he was alive.
February 18, 2011 at 10:32 am
First of all, you don’t know the story. And your ignorance shows it. Second, before you go and judge someone you should learn the story. I’d love to sit here and tell you exactly what happened just so people can see what an ass you are, but I just thought people should know that not all of these people were indigents. Someone made a mistake, and WE paid for it. But thanks for taking the time to look like a fool.
February 18, 2011 at 1:14 pm
It’s funny how some people can assume they know what happened. I left a comment under Marley’s Ghost that is meant for you as well.
February 18, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Your thought proces is limited…possibly they did try to help and he refused.Regardless,your response is a reflection of your limitations!
February 18, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Not to put too fine point on it but you are an ass. people have their own two legs and its a little hard on the rational members of a family to follow their drug addicted mentally ill siblings around , especially if that person doesnt WANT your help And maybe you should consider the damage that person can do to your small children. Just imagine him shooting smack in the back bedroom with his friends. then later they break into your house and steal from you.
The problem is not that they bury coffins on top of each other.They have been doing that forever in Europe. The problem is that they lack lack the respect to clearly identify where they put him. Sorry to be insulting to you but you dont really seem to get it.
February 19, 2011 at 12:03 am
Some people here are pretty crass and rude, and I’m sorry that’s the case. I don’t pretend to know why you weren’t sufficiently in contact with your brother that you knew he was missing. I’m certainly not going to pass judgment. I am genuinely sympathetic for what you went through.
But the number of unclaimed bodies a city the size of Chicago must deal with requires a certain degree of officiousness; and it permits only so much sentiment. The taxpayers are a cash-pinata that’s just about empty. At $239, how much can the funeral home be expected to provide in the way of dignity? Nor can the taxpayers be expected to foot the bill, when so many are going through terrible times in this economy.
I hope you have now made arrangements for your brother that meet with your satisfaction (and that you have reimbursed the city for the expenses it incurred both to bury, then exhume him). Grace and peace to you and yours.
February 18, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Heres whats wrong with your comment:
“I can’t believe how disrespectful some of you are. My brother was buried there in the same”
1.) “how disrespectful some of you are”
ad-hominem attacks (personal attacks) against others
2.) “My brother was buried there in the same”"
its all about YOU
Both these mark you as the typical self-centred LIBERAL. Every statement and position of a Liberal is abotu makign themselves the center of the Universe and making vile and vicious personal attacks against anyone who dares challenge you.
February 18, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Nobody just disappears, unless of course, you were not caring enough to take him in. Let me guess. Drugs? And so, when he dies, nobody is there from your family with him. Now you are mad at everybody else for your family and YOU not being there for him. It’s all about you, isn’t it. You say you loved your brother, but where were you when he needed you? I don’t think this sounds stupid. I think it sounds true. He was beyond caring when your family finally found him. What did you think the police would do? Search the whole world for relatives? Get real. Yep, you do sound like a liberal unable to accept their own personal responsibilities while vilifying everybody else.
Well, it’s too late now and you will bear the awful chains you forged in life. All captive bound and double ironed.
February 18, 2011 at 10:38 pm
who cares
February 18, 2011 at 9:20 am
The number of jokes about the continuation of the deceaseds voting record and the required indignation of certain posters is amusing. The added bonus of the christian and non-beleivers agreeing is funny. The turd from the cops acting suprised and indignant, when you take into account what happened at Burr Oaks, is hilarious. To bad the taxpayers are the butt of the joke By the way any chance of burning the bodies under a boiler to make steam to turn a turbine and make electricity? While a few of the dead may have been useless in life maybe they can be usefull in death. Just an after thought…
February 18, 2011 at 9:24 am
It takes too much fuel to burn a body, as I found out long ago.
February 18, 2011 at 10:43 am
Sounds like the end result of ObamaCare. And look where this occurred – Chicago of all places – belly of the beast!
February 18, 2011 at 9:26 am
Think some of you are jumping to conclusions here without all the facts or doing the math. The article says “officials have found bodies stacked on top of each other – some buried eight at a time” Stacked on top of each other does not say eight bodies stacked on top of each other. I think it means that 2 or maybe three bodies were stacked on top of each other with 2 or 3 more next to them in a grave opening large enough to accommodate 8 bodies.
If a body is say 18″ thick then 8 times 18” equals 12 feet of bodies. Add 2 feet of earth on top and you have a grave 14 feet deep! No way, not a chance. And for those of you who say the cemetery is getting rich on this, well you are just simpletons!
February 18, 2011 at 9:28 am
SO the democrat party voters are stacked eight deep now.
February 18, 2011 at 9:32 am
Same thing happened in Georgia a few years ago. (Tri-State Crematory) No doubt this shoddy work and enthusiastic money collecting was done in both cases by individuals of the same genetic background.
February 18, 2011 at 9:37 am
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As a retired AF Master Sergeant who grew up in Hazel Crest I am appalled. My Mother, Aunt, Grandmother and Grandfather are all interned at HMG. I feel a need to travel to Chicago from South East Virginia just to ensure my family members are still at rest.
February 18, 2011 at 9:39 am
I understand the polls show Rahm with 88% of the vote at that cemetery.
February 18, 2011 at 9:40 am
Mostofthemmay evenmeetthe residency requirements more convincingly than Rahm.
Quo warranto, B.O.?
February 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm
its chicago, what do you expect?
February 18, 2011 at 9:45 am
Hey, it makes it easier for them to vote this way
February 18, 2011 at 9:54 am
Democratic voters stacked 8 deep? No wonder we get Emanuels, and Daleys, and Obamas, and Blagos, etc., etc. crawling out of that God forsaken sewer.
February 18, 2011 at 9:54 am
Did they dig em up for nonpayment? Drop em back in the hole and cover it up.
February 18, 2011 at 9:56 am
did they find jimmy hoffa? the dnc needs some one to run against obummer in 2012
February 18, 2011 at 10:04 am
No money to bury the dead but plenty of money to support endless Wars for Israel, it all started nearly a decade ago under a false flag attack.
9/11 and Israel, here:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
February 18, 2011 at 10:07 am
It is easier for the Democrats to count the voters when the bodies are stacked in their graves.
February 18, 2011 at 10:11 am
It’s easier for the Democrats to organize their voting. Wouldn’t want dead people voting twice.
February 18, 2011 at 10:11 am
Let’s see you forgot Richard Speck (white killer, killed nurses), Jeffrey Dalmer (white serial killer and cannibal), Ted Bundy (white serial killer and a bitter), John Gacy (white, serial killer, pedophile, and that is just off the top of my head. Evil is evil it does not care your gender, color, religion or how much money you might have. Go back to Europe and take your hate with you. Disgusting.
February 18, 2011 at 10:12 am
I had not seen skepticnca’s comment
February 18, 2011 at 10:13 am
Well, they finally found the Dems secret extra VOTERS.
February 18, 2011 at 10:18 am
Dont worry, Lawless Liberal Democrats like Obama saw to it they all voted at least twice.
February 18, 2011 at 10:19 am
Hey, they’re future Dem voters!
February 18, 2011 at 10:36 am
The whole Chicago area is just disgusting. As the band Milktoast Intolerant says, its time to “Get Out Of Chicago”
February 18, 2011 at 10:55 am
Christ said “Let the dead bury their dead”
I’m quite certain the God that created everything is fully capable of restoring the bodies when it’s time for Christ to judge the living and the dead.
I’m not sure what this reverence for dead bodies is all about. Concern yourself with the soul as that determines where you’ll spend eternity.
February 18, 2011 at 11:01 am
This is done in New York City, on Hart Island, however the stacked coffins are numbered and cataloged. See the movie “Don’t Say A Word”(2001) starring Michael Douglas
February 18, 2011 at 11:09 am
Sure – little bit creepy. Cremation is always a good way to go – but how do they VOTE then? What? This is in Chi-Town, right? I’m just sayin’!
February 18, 2011 at 11:17 am
Them’s just Rahm Emannuel voters lining up in an orderly fashion.
February 18, 2011 at 11:19 am
As Fred said Christ said “Let the dead bury their dead” No one ever talks about these people before they are dead The shame is on everyone else for not knowing who these people are or ever spending time with then before death. Let me offer some Ideas States should own indigent cemeteries to be used by anyone. These people while they are alive should be given the option When you die do you want to be buried single Grave or Mass Grave, or do you choose Cremation. These people should have papers who offer these questions and include their identity. A state Cemetery will offer the opportunity to Awareness and people can help Sponsor Memorials. Just My Suggestions I am in Detroit I they spend money on storing these bodies because of cost to bury time for something more simple, fair and efficient. The New Motto of the Re-invented Michigan
February 18, 2011 at 11:20 am
ObamaCare AND ObamaAftercare is coming to a city near you.
February 18, 2011 at 11:23 am
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Ah, the “Chicago Way” rears its head again. I’m so proud the President of the US learned the ins and outs of being a pol in this cesspool.
February 18, 2011 at 11:32 am
Reprhensible treatment of the deceased
One who rises up through Chicago politics is merely the best swimmer in the sewer
Quo warranto, B.O.?
February 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
This is Obama’s legacy. The rest of the country is next.
February 18, 2011 at 11:34 am
You are all missing the point. This is Chicago and they were all lined up to VOTE!
February 18, 2011 at 11:37 am
This is how typical Democrats “balance their budgets”. Is there an honest progressive anywhere in the US?
February 18, 2011 at 11:39 am
This is the Chicago way. This is the Democrat way. This is what you voted for. This is what you get.
February 18, 2011 at 11:46 am
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These are people that didn’t support Obamacare. please don’t tell them what I look like.
Please Check out song called teapartiers I can’t hear you at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfboOindCo
Here’s a verse
Doctors are retiring earlier but we’re getting 17000 new IRS
This is how Obama creates health care jobs I guess
For 234 years this country’s been God’s blessing.
Now he’s following Cloward and Piven’s to bankrupt the country I’m guessing
If Obamacare gives Grandma and Grandpa a scare
Think how when their rationed and die earlier we’ll save on healthcare
Hey guys if you fought at Iwo or the Chosen
when they stop giving your wife her meds and her last breath comes over her face
you’ll find comfort knowing Nancy’d gladly take her place.
February 18, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Perhaps this cemetary is a test dumping ground for Obamacare death panels Something for CBS to check into. Obama’s treatment of the elderly will most likely be a shovel ready project
Hoax and chains …
February 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Memorials are one thing… stupid land use is quite another… and cremation is outrageously energy-intensive. Why can’t we ALL buy 1 or 2 plots for our whole families? Who needs a concrete liner? Only the funeral industry.
February 18, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Were they complaing?
February 18, 2011 at 12:20 pm
YES, it actually does cost more to bury these people in single plots. A cemetary has a limited amount of land and cannot bury someone for $250 in a $2000 plot.
February 18, 2011 at 12:40 pm
In all fairness Indigent Dead People probably make up a large portion of the voters in Chicago so they should be treated better.
February 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Why is it desecration of a body to bury one atop the other?? Who decides?? The bodies are dead. Some people think cremation is desecration.
This is how it has always been done in places where land is at a premium. The only complaint you may have is whether these graves are marked properly.
February 18, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Well it people have a problem with burring indigents/bums 8 boxes high then toss their remains in the blast furnaces and let the ashes blow over to Canada. The Cemetery did nothing wrong that I see.
February 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm
They’re dead!
Unless it’s in the contract not to stack them, there’s nothing wrong with what was done.
I think they should all be cremated instead of being buried.
February 18, 2011 at 1:09 pm
In Chicago this just means that eight dead voters will have to share the same address.
February 18, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Good point! However, I think you meant eight dead Democrat voters.
February 18, 2011 at 1:25 pm
wow sounds like the dems very own voting block, no wonder the daileys never lost and election
February 18, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Oh No, the article was sponsered by a funeral home lobby group. II’d bet that they want more taxes to help the couny bury your loved ones.
“Would you want your grandmother laying with someone they don’t even know? You don’t love your grandma?”
February 18, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Is there some good reason the indigent couldn’t be cremated? The individual might not prefer it, but as they say, “beggars can’t be choosers.” In any case, I imagine they’d would be preferable to being stacked up.
February 18, 2011 at 1:35 pm
It doesn’t matter. It simply doesn’t matter. Stop wasting land on burials. Humans will be dying for as long as we exist, Burials are BS to begin with, 100% unnecessary. Stop wasting LAND!
February 18, 2011 at 1:36 pm
All these people so outraged about the process of burying these people. Where was there outrage and support while they LIVING. All you need to do is make some large donations to build a nice crypt to keep them in and your pain will be eased. Not that concerned after all are you.
February 18, 2011 at 1:36 pm
The headline and story here is a bunch of nonsense. The sheriff’s did not FIND bodies stacked on top of each other. There was nothing being hidden by the cemetary. The claim about no records was even apparently proven untrue. Just another politician looking for a headline.
February 18, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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who cares they are dead.
when i die the last thing i care about is where or how i am buried. burn me up and throw me in the trash can. i will be dead. i won’t care, Your ash, skin and water. big deal. People are too self minded to worry about what happens to them when they die. Get over yourselves. Bury all bodies in one big hole and develop the land into some nice condos.
February 18, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Woulldnt a CREMATION of indigent remains be more COST EFFFECTIVE, DIGNIFIED, and streamlined than paying a cemetery to stack corpses of the homeless like cordwood?
The point of a BURIAL for 99% of people is a final resting place where loved ones can ‘visit’ their loved one.
NO ONE is coming to visit at the ”indigent body dump’, sadly. Thus, BURIAL is a waste of county effort, and having ones remains melting into a decayed glob of hundreds of homeless people is hardly dignified or being ‘layed to res’.
End this nonsense now of a ‘county burial dump’ and cremate these remains.
February 18, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Why Bury them at all……We are talking about Dead people here. If no one claims them, take a DNA sample, File it and then cremate the Body. End of Story..If someone comes looking for a Dead Person who matched the deceased description, then they can pay for the DNA Test. If they did not care about these people when they where alive, then why in hell are they worried about them now that they are dead……….
February 18, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I agree except the DNA testing. Why spend the money? I dont care what happens to my body when I die. I dont hold to rituals. Cremate me, dump me in the lake, grind me into sausage….what do I care? Im dead and I wont feel a thing. Im just going to decay into dust in a grave anyway.
February 18, 2011 at 4:38 pm
This is what Chicago refer to as a
“VOTING BLOCK”
February 18, 2011 at 3:00 pm
L O L
February 19, 2011 at 1:14 am
That just makes it easier to round them up on Election Day.
(Sorry! Snarky cheesehead still feeling the afterglow from the playoffs!)
February 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm
leave these people alone there going to be needed in the next election
February 18, 2011 at 3:08 pm
IRISH DEERHOUNDS ARE FUGGLY DOGS.
February 18, 2011 at 3:18 pm
The dems don’t treat their deceased voters any differently than their live voters.
February 18, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Hey, what could be more pure Chicago – Eight votes per burial plot instead of one.
February 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Not only are they stacked 8 deep, they all vote!
February 18, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I am sure glad that all of the crime and corruption in Cook County has been taken care of that the Sheriff has time to worry about how the ME does his job
February 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm
WWW has it correct, the Chicago Democrat machine would be out of vote power in the dead do not vote. I wonder if Sen Obama would have been voted iState office and the Federal office without the help of the “dead vote” in Cook County?
February 18, 2011 at 4:25 pm
queens like stacking up so who cares …..
February 18, 2011 at 4:27 pm
When I die I dont give a damn what happens to my body.
Dead bodies are dead. They cant be insulted.
February 18, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Democrats finally figured out how to run something efficiently– eight times the vote fraud per square foot.
February 18, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Many cultures used mass graves for indigents. They didnt even get coffins. Dump them in a pit, throw on some lye and when the pit gets filled cover it with dirt. Its a dead body. Its going to do nothing but decay to dust anyway. Why do “intelligent” people cling to rituals?
February 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm
cant they get prison inmates to do the diggin at indigent burials to save some money and work off the inmates debt to society ?
February 18, 2011 at 4:55 pm
What’s the problem? They are dead and the dead are merely caro data vermibus [flesh given to worms] and nullis in bonis [the property of no one].
Perhaps, the indigent dead could be sent to local power companies and their corpses incinerated to help produce electricity.
February 18, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Trust me, I support law enforcement officers, but there have to be limits in regard to laws and regulations passed under the guise of “assisting law enforcement”. They can take pictures, have an autopsy performed (with more pictures), keep a vile of blood/tissue sample in a warehouse and that’s that. Otherwise we risk creating a “police state” mentality. We don’t ever want law enforcement thinking they are in charge of us, as opposed to being there to “Serve and Protect”. The cops need not be involved in burial regulations.
February 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Who cares. Float me down a river when I’m gone. I’m gone.
February 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Don’t be disrespecting those fine Obama voters
February 18, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Are these not city employees? This is what you get with the union thugs and communist agitators supposedly working the city. They don’t work or they protest something. Even in the city cementary is debased by them. It is war now, it is the public union thugs and communist agitators against the rest of us.
February 18, 2011 at 5:44 pm
At least they were buried and not sitting in a box in the basement of a funeral home because no one claimed them.
February 18, 2011 at 5:44 pm
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Rotting meat, whats the big deal? When I’m dead I sure as hell won’t give a damn about my corpse, nor will my family or friends. We’re atheists too, so its not some “the soul has left the building” type thing either. Burn me, churn me, feed me to the dogs, or make me soylent green. I don’t care nor should any rational person, we live, we die, and we return to the earth for bugs and stuff to eat.
February 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Most people think of greenprojects as ons of more conventional environmental friendly varieties. Perhaps in Chicago the Soylent Green process is their prize “green” technology
February 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Whatever you do, don’t tell the Democrats or Rahm the location of that cemetary. They’ll go nuts over the disoovery of new voters there.
February 18, 2011 at 7:12 pm
You mean John F. Kennedy did not get his full vote during his election.
February 18, 2011 at 7:39 pm
No way man, these people are all registered dems and voted for Obama twice each, they never miss an election!!!
February 18, 2011 at 11:09 pm
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So much for an accurate CENSUS. They gonna do a recount to get more Democrat voters?
February 18, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I was thinking the same thing. Seven votes per grave wasted.
February 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm
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How typical for Chicago, Obama’s main town. Having intercourse with the glutimas maximas of the tax payera.
If you want to review the proper, dignified manner to treat the indigents with no know family or with families that can not afford it when notified, see how Sheriff Joe handles it in Maricopa County, Arizona. Very proper and with dignity. I was in the business years ago and I know.
February 18, 2011 at 8:50 pm
That’s funny. They’re usually only eight deep in the streets.
February 18, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Finally we know where the Clinton’s and Daley’s have been burying all the bodies all these years along with the Chicago Machine daddy Daley built …
February 18, 2011 at 11:06 pm
WellI, for one, don`t really care what happenes to me after I am dead and I don`t really think any of these people do either. Neither do they have family or friends that care what happens. I`m not trying to be disrespectful here mind you.
February 19, 2011 at 12:20 am
THEY ARE DEAD!!! THEY DON’T CARE!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE DUMB!!!!
February 19, 2011 at 1:01 am
I can’t believe people pay to bury the dead…. let them rot in a field…. THEY ARE DEAD!!!
February 19, 2011 at 1:05 am
I was born in Chicago, but I will be sure not to die there.
February 19, 2011 at 1:51 am
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How many indigents are buried in stacks? A numerical comparison would be interesting. How many fetuses are aborted per year in Chicago alone compared to the number of indigents as mentioned in the article? I wager there are more deaths of fetuses than death of indigents every year for many years. Death is death is death, and numbers are numbers are numbers. Ah, but politics and selling media reports is very much alive, and wandering the streets in search of….
February 19, 2011 at 4:00 am
It is common in Europe to have a family plot the bones from the dead are wrapped in a sheet and inserted in the new deceased casket, makes sense. Saves space.
February 19, 2011 at 5:23 am
So that is where all the unseen voters are…
February 19, 2011 at 5:36 am
EVRYTHING IN CHICAGO IS STACKED..WHATS THE BIG DEAL?
February 19, 2011 at 7:00 am
Evreything in Chicago is stacked except for possibly the treasurer and a few of the alderwomen
February 19, 2011 at 10:36 am
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Does this mean 8 votes per gravesite?
February 19, 2011 at 7:32 am
I wonder if medical schools could use these bodies. If know one claims them the city can sell them to medical colleges and turn a loss into a gain. I,m sure the bodies won’t mind and if they do they can simply specify other arrangements when they register to vote.
I believe this has, in fact, already been done in Chicago by the pioneering early progressive Dr. H.H. Holmes. In the late 1800′s he set up a facility specificly for processing Chicago residents for use in medical colleges. If the good doctor were alive today I’m sure he would make a splendid case worker at Planned Parenthood.
The doctors system should be considered by the like minded but far less techniclly competent piers who currently run the windy city.
February 19, 2011 at 8:25 am
I’m told that these bodies were there so that Rahm Emanuel’s people could get them registered to vote.
February 19, 2011 at 8:40 am
Help his people bone up on election law?
February 19, 2011 at 10:16 am
As shocking as this discovery is, it was even more shocking when they discovered that every one of these poor souls managed to vote in the 2008 elections.
February 19, 2011 at 9:27 am
All you people who think this is such a bad thi you can pay for them to have a “decent” burial. I`m sure Homewood Memorial Gardens will accept donations.
February 19, 2011 at 9:32 am
I think the Chicago/Cook County Democratic machine must be upset that they missed this vital pool of voters Did they find Jimmy Hoffa and Barry’s birth certificate, too? …maybe B.O.’s Occidental College records are over in plot G4
Any stimulus funds used for this kind of shovel ready project?
Quo warranto, B.O.?
February 19, 2011 at 10:13 am
Hey, before you toss those bodies, make sure they cast their Rahm Emanuel ballots! It’s the Chicago way!
February 19, 2011 at 10:14 am
Where will all their communbity-action stimulus checks be mailed now? How can we expect Obama to succeed laundering the complete contents of the U.S. Treasury through unions, ACORN, and patronage schemes if we keep digging up his constituents? It is clear we need a Cemetery Czar.
February 19, 2011 at 10:18 am
whats it really matter. death is death. whats done with the bodys is an after thought. its a body not the person you loved. they should just all be cremated its cheaper and would save a lot of space.
February 19, 2011 at 10:36 am
In Chicago the living are not shown any respect, so why would anyone think that the dead deserve any better treatment.
February 19, 2011 at 11:37 am
Expediency! Do it at the lowest cost and no one’s crying.
February 19, 2011 at 12:07 pm
exactly!!
February 19, 2011 at 12:24 pm
whether you cremate or bury, it all turns to ashes, just a little slower one way over the other. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
February 19, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I wonder if an organized crime group could be paying an employee or two to help dispose of bodies in a manner that leaves no trace. Burying a body in a cemetery hardly looks suspicious and would certainly tie up loose ends after making someone “disappear”. “Nothing to see here. Just another indigent person being put to rest.”
February 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm
The real issue is DO THEY ALL GET TO VOTE?????
February 19, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Fear not! They vote at LEAST once in every election.
February 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Let’s see. Illinois is run by conservatives? No wait. Liberal Democrats. Yeah, dat’s it…
February 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
These people are up in Heaven. The bodies are just the “shell” they lived in while here on earth. It states in the Holy Bible: “I give life and I take it away.” (“I” meaning God.) They should burn all the bodies. It would be more sanitary.
GOD bless them.
February 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Of course they know who they are! They are going to be Rahm’s voting public for mayor. I thought everyone there knows how Chicago democrats get their wins.
February 19, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Wow, I was going to comment on the article, but after reading the other comments, I’m just gonna say I thank God I don’t live in Chicago. No dignity in the practices here, and none in the feelings imparted by those on these comments.
Unbelievable.
February 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Process them for hog food and turn a profit. Deadwood will be relatively civilized compared to the near future.
February 19, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Sweet home Chicagoland…
February 19, 2011 at 5:06 pm
what the hell is wrong with people these days? MY GOD!!!!
February 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm
When life has no value, death has none either. When the great Obama declares himself president for life, they will need these kind of accommodations for the people who will fight for freedom.
February 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm
This seems like a case of creating news where none really exists. Are we supposed to feel outrage because nameless, indigent people are not receiving a decent burial? I agree with the idea of cremation.
February 19, 2011 at 7:05 pm
THESE ARE CHICAGO DEMOCRAT VOTERS LEAVE THEM ALONE!
May they Vote in Peace!
February 20, 2011 at 4:27 am
Cremating the bodies could cause trouble. Sure, most of the Christian denominations have gotten over their opposition to it, but you could probably find a few who haven’t. Islam and Judaism are also anti-cremation.
February 20, 2011 at 11:32 am
Some people are just cruel.everyone of those people are loved by someone just because they couldn’t afford it doesn’t mean they should of been treated like that! The picture above is flowers for a very loved and missed baby girl.don’t judge anyone until you walk in their shoes!
February 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm
We are common people that must have some decent and respect for others. At one time, these were living human beings. Non one has to be so money-crazy to treat these people with lvery little respect. Is money all htat important that make people to just dump people into mass graves without having them to be found years later? What is wrong with America to day? It is ashame to hear of such inhuman treatments even when we are dead. This is not a good thing to do with somebody relatives.
February 24, 2011 at 2:02 pm