Indigent Burials on the Rise Nationwide

USA Today has recently reported on the rising demand in counties for publicly-funded burial services, citing to the economic recession as the cause.  To the list of specific counties reporting such increases, the article adds Kenton County, Kentucky, which has seen the number of indigent burials more than double this year when compared to last year.

See Donna Leinwand, Demand rises for publicly funded burials, USA Today, Aug. 2009.