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Struggling to bury the dead in Rome.
Funeral home operators staged a protest in Rome on Friday over a desperate situation they say has left almost 2,000 coffins in the Italian capital waiting weeks or even months to be cremated.
Rome registers about 15-18,000 requests for cremations every year, for which families must go through a “tortuous” bureaucratic journey involving the local cemetery, the municipal agency AMA and the registrar office.
Lorella Pesaresi, whose husband died in January after testing positive for coronavirus while undergoing chemotherapy, said:
Funeral home operators staged a protest in Rome on Friday over a desperate situation they say has left almost 2,000 coffins in the Italian capital waiting weeks or even months to be cremated.
Rome registers about 15-18,000 requests for cremations every year, for which families must go through a “tortuous” bureaucratic journey involving the local cemetery, the municipal agency AMA and the registrar office.
Lorella Pesaresi, whose husband died in January after testing positive for coronavirus while undergoing chemotherapy, said:
It’s been three months that I’ve been waiting for my husband’s cremation, and still nothing has been done.
It’s not fair – coronavirus and now this.