Unclaimed Doesn't Mean Unmourned

01/11/2024 30 min Temporada 3 Episodio 22
Unclaimed Doesn't Mean Unmourned

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Episode Synopsis

Bringing her journalistic eye to a sociological problem, Pamela Prickett gives listeners insight into a growing American issue: thousands of bodies are going unclaimed by relatives after death—up to 150,000 each year. Prickett unpacks the why behind the issue, as well as the ways that religion is being used to craft rituals and communities of care so that people do not go unremembered or unmourned.