WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Four women who run a funeral home in New York City's Harlem have been working 'nonstop' and are making the heartbreaking choice to turn some bodies away
As health officials began burying COVID-19 victims in a mass grave on Hart Island during New York's worst week of death, the four female undertakers at the International Funeral & Cremation Service started turning bodies away.Weinrieb, Narvaez, Adames and Warring pose for a photo outside the building where they work.
On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, nurses and doctors are caring for the living. But there is another front line of those caring for the dead. They fear they can also get infected and die. Some of them have sent their own children to live with relatives. And because American cities like New York were never designed to dispose of so many dead, their call of duty will last much longer.
Jenny Adames sent her daughter to live with her mother. She recently caught herself snapping at her in a text exchange. Lily moved out of a shared house with friends in Philadelphia because she didn't think it was right to constantly expose her housemates to the virus. Her parents let her move home but she says no one has hugged her for more than a month.Several nights each week Lily, 25, sleeps in the chapel at the funeral home.Adames sits inside the chapel at the funeral home where she works, following a viewing service.
The death toll in the United States is now the highest in the world. A third of U.S. deaths, more than 13,000, have been in New York City.Death in a pandemic isn't pretty. The refrigerated trailers outside of the hospitals don't have enough shelving and bodies are sometimes stacked on top of each other and on the floor. Some trailers don't have lights.10 Apr 2020The body bag of a COVID-19 victim, is labeled in the prep room.
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