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Katrinas death toll remains a mystery

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 11 February 2006
February 11, 2006 By The Associated Press and The Washington Post NEW ORLEANS Ã¢â‚¬â€ Nearly six months after Hurricane Katrina, more than 1,300 bodies have been found, but no one can determine the true death toll. Hundreds of people are missing, and some probably were washed into the Gulf of Mexico, drowned when their fishing boats sank, swept into Lake Pontchartrain or alligator-infested swamps, or buried under crushed homes, said Dr. Louis Cataldie, Louisiana medical examiner. Cataldie noted that coffins, disgorged by the floodwaters, have been found great distances from their graveyards, and "if we have coffins that have washed 30 miles away, I can assure you there are people who have. "The likelihood is there are people we will not find." New Orleans Coroner Frank Minyard said a final sweep of homes in the devastated 9th Ward will be done this month. After that, he said, any more bodies found probably will be discovered in out-of-the-way places. The remains of 1,079 people have been recovered in Louisiana; 231 were found in Mississippi. But Louisiana officials have information on roughly 300 people reported missing. "I have people trying to close estates. I have lawyers calling me. I have people calling me, saying, 'Do you have my momma?' " Cataldie said. Another question now is what to do with the dead. A makeshift morgue in Carville, 45 miles northwest of New Orleans, is scheduled to close this month. State authorities had prepared a 4-acre cemetery site in Carville. A memorial was envisioned. But that did not sit well with many in New Orleans who argued that a proper burial includes the sense, spiritual and geographical, of "going home." So New Orleans will take custody of the dead. City officials last week asked for financial help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to build a $400,000 mausoleum. A FEMA spokesman said the agency is prepared to pay at least some of the expense. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002798269_katrinadeath11.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries