Among its other duties, city police has to trace and track down families of unclaimed bodies—those ... “I went to help and saw dead bodies on the roads that no one was ready to touch.

When Lehigh County pays for a cremation, the remains rest in an urn that is filed away in a cardboard box in a storage room ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical ...

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NBC News exposed how the bodies of the unclaimed poor are dissected and leased ... program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect. Aurimar Iturriago ...

As storage facilities around Japan slowly fill with unclaimed human remains, the welfare ministry will conduct the first survey on how municipalities are dealing with the matter, officials said.

Police in the Western Cape are calling on members of the public to help identify and locate the families of two deceased men. The unidentified individuals died in separate incidents. The ...

For about 50 years, he has been taking care of some of the unclaimed dead in Sydney. “A lot of homeless and kind of disadvantaged people they die early, way before their time. And it just ...

Highly appreciating the decades of dedicated service of Anjuman Mufidul Islam to humanity, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday emphasized building a humane society where there will be no words ...