Los Angeles County Buries Unclaimed Dead

Today, Los Angeles County will bury 1,639 individuals whose bodies were left unclaimed by family members. The county buries the bodies of those left unclaimed every year in December. The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. at the Los Angeles County Crematory and Cemetery.

See L.A. County to Bury Homeless, Poor Unclaimed by Family Members, L.A. Now, Dec. 6, 2011.