Move will save Wayne County $1.5M over three years
(NEWSER) - With bodies piling up and funding disappearing, Detroit has decided to save some money by outsourcing its morgue operations to the University of Michigan, Bloomberg reports. Detroit’s morgue is unusually busy, with five pathologists performing autopsies on 2,400 corpses a year. Earlier this year, it had 185 bodies stacked up in its refrigerator and a temporary trailer, their burials delayed either by paperwork or relatives who couldn’t pay to bury or cremate them. More»
