Authorities find more bodies after initial report of 115 two weeks ago, when owners were evicted and police investigated foul odor

The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from about 115 reported when the bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.

The remains were found by authorities responding to a report of a foul odor at the Return to Nature funeral home inside a decrepit building in the small town of Penrose, Colorado.

Efforts to identify the remains began last week with help from an FBI team that gets deployed to mass casualty events like airline crashes. Fremont sheriff Allen Cooper described the scene as “horrific”.

      • krellor
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        91 year ago

        But with what population density? I’m imagining NYC or LA county looking very different, lol.

        • Flying Squid
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          Probably not good for New York, but it doesn’t spread disease where it’s practiced, which was my point.

          • krellor
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            51 year ago

            That’s fair. Personally, I’m all for donate organs to save people -> body to science -> (cremation of remains ashes to family OR industrial/forest compost). It scales and solves problems.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Bodies for science usually ends up with the military buying the corpse and then testing out ordinance.

              I’m not kidding.

              • krellor
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                21 year ago

                You can specify the organization to receive your body, though some have prescreening.

                Generally speaking, bodies donated to science don’t end up being tested with ordinance. The consent waiver limits how the body can be used and is generally narrowed to medical research. One example where this didn’t happen was here and the company founder was tried for fraud.

                My suggestion for people is to find an organization that directly accepts donated bodies and go through their prescreening to bypass the body broker business.

          • Deceptichum
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            41 year ago

            NY could probably get away with dumping them down the sewers for the giant rats to eat.

            • @Touching_Grass
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              21 year ago

              Why don’t we eat them or throw them in those huge car crushers and make a YouTube channel of it.

      • JJROKCZ
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        21 year ago

        Tibetans and mongols don’t invest the same toxic chemicals and plastics Americans do, they also don’t need to bury a thousand people a day like America does

    • @Touching_Grass
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      Is your idiot brain getting fucked by stupid

    • Jaytreeman
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      Lost Redditor?
      The fediverse is largely positive. Let’s keep it that way