is this in Iraq or da United States of superpower America?

[Meatpie]

30 people were buried in a mass grave in Chicagoland on Wednesday because relatives couldn't afford a burial plot.

Worse still morgues thourghout the US report an increasing number of corpses no one comes to take for funeral.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088709/Third-world-America-Pics-paupers-grave-Chicago.html

 

[djbear]

That is sad. People move about and reject family too often.

 

[mxboots888]

Hmmmm.... The holes look pretty shallow....

 

[Meatpie]

I agree. Horrible.

 

[Fideliodemo]

It is a potter's field so they are lucky to be in caskets/pine boxes and buried and not placed in trash bags and set out on the curb for collection with the trash. A potter's field is an American term for a place for the burial of unknown or indigent people. The expression derives from the Bible, referring to a field used for the extraction of potter's clay, which was useless for agriculture but could be used as a burial site. The term comes from Matthew 27:3-8 in the New Testament of the Bible, in which Jewish priests take 30 pieces of silver returned by a remorseful Judas. Examples include:

• Lincoln Park, on Chicago's North Side, found its origin in the 1840s as Chicago City Cemetery. The southernmost portion of the cemetery, where one may now find a number of baseball fields (north of LaSalle Dr., west of North Avenue Beach), was the location of the City Cemetery potter's field from 1843 to 1871. More than 15,000 people, including 4,000 Civil War Rebels, were buried here on marshy land near the water's edge. The baseball fields have occupied these grounds since 1877.
• Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park and Bryant Park in New York City originated as potter's fields. The city's current potter's field, and one of the largest cemeteries in the United States, with at least 800,000 burials, is on Hart Island
• Potter's Field was also the name of a small cove of the East River just below the Williamsburg Bridge on the Brooklyn side, where bodies that have been in the river from November through the winter season surface in April as the rising temperature causes them to decompose and rise to the surface. The fluid dynamics of the East River causes a collection of these bodies every year off the docks of Potter's Field.
• Hudson County Burial Grounds
• Washington Square (Philadelphia)
• Potter's Field (Omaha) in Omaha, Nebraska
• Holt Cemetery in New Orleans contains the remains of known and unknown early jazz musicians, including Charles "Buddy" Bolden. The battered remains of Robert Charles, at the center of the 1900 New Orleans race riot were briefly interred there, then dug up, and incinerated. It is located next to Delgado Community College.
• Potters Fields, London, SE1, near the London City Hall and St Olave's Grammar School
• Toronto, Ontario had a Potter's Field at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets. The burial grounds were closed with some of the bodies moved to other cemeteries. Unknown number of bodies remained on the site when it was built over. Today the grounds are part of the posh Yorkville district, and the site of an office tower.
• Blue Plains, in the Anacostia area of Washington D.C., contains remains of executed international spies including Nazi spies from Operation Pastorius.
• Cimetière de Laval, near Montreal, Quebec.
• Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio was built over a nineteenth-century potter's field.

 

[Outlawbiker]

It is called " Potters Field". The bury the Homeless found dead here in Phoenix AZ. Jail Inmates are selected to dig the hole and put the bodies that are in a box in the ground. They then cover the box and say a prayer over the grave for the person in side.

JJ