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King County Holds Heartbreakingly Vast Funeral for People With Nobody to Bury Them

King County Holds Heartbreakingly Vast Funeral for People With Nobody to Bury Them

King County held a funeral for 626 people with no one to bury them. The ceremony, part of the county's indigent remains program, saw the interment of cremains in concrete crypts with plastic urns. The number of individuals honored at this service is the highest the county has seen at one time.

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