Overwhelmed US Funeral Homes Turn Families Away
April 7, 2020
3:30 pm
Funeral director Kendall Lindsay has been forced to turn 20 families away.
As the number of COVID-19 deaths skyrockets in New York City, the third-generation funeral director at Lawrence H Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn said the demand for funeral services has increased overwhelmingly.
On March 29, the funeral home had 127 scheduled funeral services; a week later, on April 5, that number had gone up to 175, Lindsay told Al Jazeera in an email. The funeral home is not taking on any new cases because it is running out of storage capacity.
“We have cases we cannot bury or
