Now even people who once had a wealth of social connections are ending up in unmarked graves, as L.A. County experiences an uptick in unclaimed bodies.
Lena Brown’s lonely ending forewarns a future of death in America. She’d built a middle-class life in Hawthorne as a widow with no children. Her niece and nephew moved her to a nursing home when she was 93. They soon stopped visiting. Six years later, Brown died. Calls and letters from local officials to her relatives went unanswered. L.A.
The opioid epidemic and untreated mental illness also strain kin ties beyond repair. On paper, these families are still a unit, but they no longer support one another. In other cases, families are split up through incarceration or the foster care system. Demographic trends show that the close-knit family structure that once protected people from going unclaimed no longer prevails.
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