Funeral directors ‘sound the alarm’ over capacity concerns – By Rio Lacanlale (Las Vegas Review-Journal) / January 8 2021
In the parking lot of the Las Vegas funeral home now sits a white shipping container. The unit is nondescript and unassuming, but inside lie bodies awaiting burial or cremation.
Many of them are victims of COVID-19.
Storing the dead in shipping containers is a grim reality that less than a year ago would have seemed unimaginable, inhumane even, to funeral directors Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft. Yet relief washed over the married couple when the container, kept at a cool 38 degrees internally, arrived about two weeks ago outside their small, family-owned funeral home, Kraft-Sussman Funeral and Cremation Services.
By then, the worst case scenario, what Sussman and Kraft had been bracing for since the pandemic exploded in March, had seemingly happened overnight.
