“So many bodies piled up”: Hong Kong funeral services overwhelmed by COVID
Hong Kong, China Reuters Traditional wooden coffins are running short in Hong Kong as authorities scramble to add mortuary space in the global financial hub’s battle on COVID-19, which is swamping funeral parlours. “I have never seen so many bodies piled up together,” said funeral director Lok Chung, 37, who has been working round the […]
As coronavirus death rates multiply, these monks are giving away caskets
RNS They live secluded lives in a stone abbey near a privately owned forest in a rural part of eastern Iowa in the US. But the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey are not closed off from the world’s troubles. Monks make cremation urns at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa. PICTURE: Mark Hirsch Last […]
Decorated with butterflies, infant-sized coffins sent to measles-ravaged Samoa
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Volunteers in the New Zealand city of Rotorua are preparing two dozen white-lined coffins to be transported to Samoa at the end of the week as the measles-ravaged Pacific island nation languishes under a growing death toll that has now hit 70. The smallest of the coffins, designed for the bodies of babies, […]