Among Haiti’s Innumerable Dead, A Coffin-maker Recession (time.com)

A man pulls a cart carrying a coffin containing three bodies at the cemetery for burial in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Lacking funds for coffins, the survivors of the Sidney family were forced to fill one coffin with the bodies of an aunt and two brothers after their bodies were pulled from the rubble of their home Sunday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Time.com – Only the rich can afford coffins nowadays. Many corpses of the poor are piled up on sidewalks to be carried off like garbage

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