LA County to bury over 2,000 unclaimed decedents in common grave

More than 2,300 people who died in Los Angeles County but whose bodies remain unclaimed will be laid to rest Thursday in a common grave during an interfaith ceremony in Boyle Heights that has taken place annually for well over a century.

The Ceremony to Commemorate the Unclaimed Dead will be held at 10 a.m. at the Los Angeles County Crematory and Cemetery.

Local faith leaders will preside over the ceremony, which is held by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, along with the Department of Health Services’ Office of Decedent Affairs and the Los Angeles General Medical Center Chaplains…

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