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 ...

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.

Twenty-eight people who died in Lackawanna County during the past year never got a chance to be properly remembered, their remains unclaimed by friends or family. A funeral Mass at Scranton ...