In India, a developing nation that still deals with the Black Death, there are simply too many corpses and too little time. In lieu of a better solution, a mortuary near New Delhi has been creatively dealing with the unclaimed dead for nearly twenty years. When a body undergoes an autopsy and no family members show up within seven days to make funeral arrangements, who you gonna call? The pond out back, that’s who.
In its current dried up state, a small body of water near the house o’ the dead revealed human remains, including about a hundred skulls. Police chief Maan Singh Chauhan suspects that former junior officers got lazy and found a half-assed short cut.
While such an unsanitary discovery would send shockwaves through any health-paranoid first world nation, it is not so jarring a prospect in a nation where cow urine is a leisurely beverage, worshippers drink milk with rats swimming around in it, and men marry dogs.
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