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In the footage, people could see piles of caskets lowered into trenches and then covered with dirt. It seemed like an anonymous burial system where the dead could be dumped and forgotten. But contrary to appearances, everyone who is buried at Hart Island has a death certificate, and is buried individually in a casket geo-located so precisely that visitors will soon be able to use the GPS systems on their phone to find exactly where their loved ones are.
Unclaimed bodies have been buried there for 150 years, since Union soldiers were buried during the American Civil War. There have been over a million burials total, making it one of the largest mass graves in America.
We've been through these epidemics before," said Hunt, noting that Hart Island was used in both the 1918 flu pandemic and with the AIDS epidemic. "This is the one area where New York actually has the capacity, and the system will work just fine.
The bodies are buried in an easy-to-track geolocated grid system, in long trenches, which are actually a series of continuous plots. The plots can contain 150 adult bodies, or 1,000 infant ones. The boxes of bodies are stacked three high and two across. Within that grid, each box is numbered as a grave.
With a family's permission, or if no family members or loved ones are present, the medical examiner will release the body for a city burial. Ordinarily the body has to be unclaimed for 30 days for a Hart Island burial, but during the crisis that has been shortened to 14 days.
Recently, the city ended the use of inmate labor to dig graves, further destigmatizing the process, and Hunt says by July 2021 the parks department will take over full management of Hart Island. People will not have to go through the penal system to arrange visitations to this green space off the coast off the Bronx, with views of the Long Island Sound.
The law says that if a family didn't agree to a city burial, or the body was mistakenly sent to Hart Island, the city is required to return the remains back to the family, provided they have a grave site in mind, up to 25 years later. That's why New York has places like Hart Island and it's why it doesn't cremate the dead, unlike states such as California, where unclaimed bodies can be cremated.