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May 22, 2020

What It Looks Like To Mourn A Mother In The Midst Of A Pandemic

How the coronavirus altered one family’s grieving process.

Apr 09, 2020

D.C. Considers Storage Trailers For The COVID-19 Dead As Region Braces For An Influx Of Corpses

Funeral homes and morticians across the region are stocking up on protective equipment and following health guidance for their line of work.

Dec 02, 2010

Now Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day

Michael Neibauer of the Washington Business Journal must have enjoyed himself while deciding on a lede for this story about the District government’s search for a few cadavers. Basically, the city’s Board of Funeral Directors (which is comprised of “four professional funeral directors and one consumer member of the District of Columbia community who have an interest in serving the funeral community” and is affiliated with the city’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs) was…

 
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