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Forensic Lab Planned for Remaining Unidentified WTC Victims

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
Memorial Will Include Special Lab With Hopes of Identifying Everyone Who Was Lost By BILL WEIR Sept. 11, 2006 — Beneath a noisy Manhattan highway under a gleaming white tent, sit three large sacred containers. They hold 14,000 carefully wrapped human remains from the terror attacks on the World Trade Center that are too small or too scattered to name. A few feet away sit a group of pews and a simple altar with space for the 1,151 families who were never given anything to bury when their loved ones were lost on Sept. 11, 2001. "We go and pray at a tombstone, and there's nothing there," said Anthoula Katsimatides. Her brother John was in the north tower when the plane hit. Charlie Wolf also lost his wife in the building that day, and said the loss is especially difficult to deal with because her body still has not been identified. "I understand that the body is an empty shell and the spirit is out there and she's with me right now, I can tell you that," Wolf said. "But there is something about not having [the remains] … there's this just empty, empty feeling." Preparing for What Will Be Better Technology No one knows if the remains will ever be identified, but at some point the thousands of bits of humanity will be taken from their tent near the FDR Drive and moved back to the scene of the attacks in lower Manhattan. The remains will rest in the space between the two footprints of the buildings. Seventy feet below the park and pools of the Ground Zero memorial they will build a room and it will not just be a crypt, it will be a working forensic laboratory. "Technology is changing all the time and we want to do whatever is possible … so that families can get remains of loved ones that they have not had," said Joe Daniels of the World Trade Center Memorial Fund. "The tomb is going to be constructed in a way that the medical examiner will always have access because many of the human remains, we're hopeful, will be able to be identified by DNA science as scientific techniques improve," said World Trade Center Memorial board member Christy Ferer. The memorial is at least four years and $170 million away from completion. Until then, the families have hallowed ground in a parking lot near midtown Manhattan. http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2420815

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Taphophilia?

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

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Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

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“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley