LOS ANGELES — An estimated 1,865 unclaimed individuals who died in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic will be laid to rest Thursday.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, along with the Department of Health Services, Office of Decedent Affairs and the Los Angeles General Medical Center Chaplains, will hold the annual non-denominational interfaith burial ceremony Thursday for the county’s unclaimed dead at the LA County Cemetery.
“We don’t know enough about the people we are burying here today to really do them justice,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said during last year’s ceremony. “But we know many of them were unhoused. Some are children. Some were immigrants to this country, far from families who loved and missed them. Almost all of them were very poor.”…