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Many of The Dead Go Unclaimed Each Year... Here’s What Happens to Them

#unclaimed#funeral#dementia#claim#sanfrancisco
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0:00 [Music] hey did you guys know that in San Francisco there's over 350 plus dead people that go unclaimed every year I bet you it's mostly homeless homeless yeah what do you mean like homeless really do you know what happens to people that go unclaimed no what happens I don't know either but no knows who they are you mean like they just die like they're found in a hotel John Do's or what yeah it could be homeless it could be they died in their home you know what I mean they could be whatever but they're just unclaimed like there's uh their next to K can't be located or maybe they can't afford the cost of funeral services so they don't even acknowledge ████ in some cases family members refuse to claim someone because of his arangement um 350 a year over 350

0:50 yeah that doesn't sound like a lot to me because of the population yeah I fig I thought it'd be more yeah unclaimed like people give a ████ that you you died like you you just off and then no one well I'm only I'm I'm also thinking about most of them are junkies yeah that's what I'm thinking when this happens the city pays for cremation services and scattering at Sea and they have a ceremony gold gate dropped off nobody's really there at the ceremony though do they like bulk ceremony like there's a guy fishing like they dump like M big Labowski CH in the water you got over 350 a die year in the 365 days a year maybe they're doing it one a day maybe or maybe they're like once a month I think it depends on population size and I assume San Francisco is out in the

1:41 millions so just like just by having millions of people there the probability seems pretty D like reasonable yeah like 300 350 people yeah it's a it's a person a day that's a ████ lot and then out of how many of them are just junkies who already are estranged and then out of how many of them are like tourists or people that came to San Francisco and they're estranged mhm and how many of them are seniors who either all of our family's dead or like they don't talk to their kids yeah yeah it says it says not all of them are unhoused or marginally housed or whatever it says many will have stable housing but have lost touch with family or ran out of money dudee I have bunch

2:33 of friends that work in hospitals and stuff and they talk about how when they have an older patient that's about to die and like a good amount of them they'll call their family to come and you know see them and go through that whole process with them and they'll be like I can't make it out and they live out of state and they just won't show up they'll just die alone yeah because it's not like just paying to go visit taking time out of work it's also like you're going to be responsible for funeral cost and funeral cost is like crazy like funeral costs are rising like crazy too right like buying the land alone when I'm talking about the coffin or The Cremation Services or the whatever the freak you know I mean if you think about these uh older people like seniors or whatever right and then like if they lived a s█████ life then like their kids aren't going to like me like my dad I don't want to

3:23 ████ I don't care like if he I'm not going to go and take care of his funeral any of that ████ I can kind of see that though like if someone moved away or like they just burnt so many bridges they have no more friends and family then they just kind of um they just die yeah and I I I bet that happens a lot in major cities a lot more than we think yeah yeah I think so cuz when you say one a day for a year I know it sounds crazy but it also like what you said doesn't really sound like that crazy I mean like think about how many a lot of people die every day right so like one of just out of accidents hell of people die just out of like just by being old how many people die you know like that's that number is pretty big but then I guess that that um unclaimed people

4:13 unidentifiable people would be interesting yeah that' be nuts that then we're like okay we have a problem here yeah identify but they're like dying alone that's a little bit different it says uh funeral poverty is real issue it's an Open Secret in healthcare family members are at the the bedside until the moment of death but disappear and won't claim the body they don't have the money and then it does fall to the jurisdiction see that's what it comes down to right is like these people can't afford to pay cuz it like when we hear people that are going through like a death in the family they always talk about how expensive the sales are like the because the funeral people are trying to get as much as they can out of this one family with all the upcharges and they're so good at doing that and they're playing on your heartstrings and they like yeah you should don't you want to get them the best coffin they can get and it turns into like all right now I have the fit like a $30,000 pill or whatever the case

5:03 may be that sucks yeah how ████ dip out too like all right then yeah the only way is like it's like man I can't afford these funeral costs but I'll pay for it cuz it's an investment because what they financially left me behind in their will yeah if they even have anything yeah but if they got nothing then it's like I better ████ love this ████ yeah that's true cuz if most of them can't pay for it then you it might even be that like they feel bad but too poor to pay for it yeah 100 yeah cuz it's not 350 missing people and unidentified it's unclaimed people right yeah can you claim talk about it with the family first too like hey just don't claim me we don't M ████ can you claim a body though and like not throw a is a funeral required if you claim like your family's body burn them right I think

5:54 you could pick up The Cremation no I don't know I'm sure some sort of charges will come come to you the these things they don't really tell you anything about until it happens plus it's probably like a time share you went to the time share meeting because you thought you want a car at the mall you know what I'm saying and then next thing you know you're stuck there and they ████ got a whole sales pitch and so many different ways that are messing with your mind you know what I mean they got that dialed down you walk out and you're like hey I'm calling my auntie hey you want to go visit uh Jamaica once a year we can split the cost like what the ████ and then boom we got time want Honda CRV you know that's the funeral game yeah probably same ████ imagine you shove like no you just got to sign them away like you know we'll take care of the rest so you sign it okay because we're taking care of everything like 10 G's you got to pay

6:44 this damn dude it's it's crazy how like there's two pretty emotionally significant times that people could make hella money on it's weddings and funerals cuz the health IND indry is already making hell of money off of births too oh ████ there's this complication you need a C-section and everything in between no yeah yeah that's when you say nope don't cut my wife open that's when I get to say it cuz she might be all tired and delusional I'm going be like nope don't touch my lady like baby is slightly the wrong way could come out deformed and ████ your face is the wrong way get this baby out like everything like they do I heard they do C-sections cuz they could crank them out quicker they get paid for it and another 5G added on top we cut you and we sold you we touch your

7:35 organs we on it it's not like such a money maker so um they do natural ████ and then and then they let you stay in the hospital longer cuz out there they're trying to crank you out turn you through the hospital like a ████ Factory they want all the up charges dude I had no idea C-sections were like a scam like that oh yeah dude of course I thought it was only when like absolutely necessary no yeah but they make it absolutely necessary so then they can make more money yeah but some moms they don't want to go through that yeah they're just like just get it out of my ████ stomach but they don't realize when they get the bill $5,000 more all the doctors are Asian Chinese every administrator a $5,000 M

8:25 money but it's ████ up you guys know how you guys want to go hell no burial see proba head in the oven I'll probably do that I'm down to go like the way my grandma did well I didn't want the minus the dementia is she died in her sleep on her 99th birthday wow that's the paint That's the picture they paint what if she ████ woke up choking and ████ suffered for the 3 hours she woke up I don't know 3 hours of choking no no no that's I'm just saying what if that that could have happened LS but what they told us is on her 99th birthday she she like uh went to no the the night before her birthday she went to sleep and on the day of she was already dead dadd that's what they told me about my grandpa too dying as sleep I'm down to dying in my sleep ████ that sounds

9:15 cool yeah imagine you're just dreaming and then you see like the tunnel of light or whatever you just walk into it and then you're you're done but she was also she also had like dementia for like over a decade so it was like she's been deteriorating that's tough bro dementia is crazy I mean like is that really living anymore you know you're like in a ████ nightmare Dream World for 10 years 10 years life starting over and over for you one of my neighbors she uh she found out she had brain lesions and and she had like 20 brain lesions and seeing her deteriorate in the past like month from when she find out she had the diagnosis and how fast everything started spreading to seeing when they eventually moved out of the house next door so they can kind of go to hospice and all that but you seen her change and you see her in the last couple days before they left you're like

10:05 oh my God this is like a shell of who the person was originally it's really ████ sad and you're just like man I just hope that they go out peacefully you know anybody else cried during the notebook yeah but I also was like you forgetful ass ████ you going to forget anyway oh she had to menion it spoiler alert yeah I've never seen movie she have dementia just watch it no do she have dementia I'm not going to watch it dude you should watch it I like Ryan Gosling you should watch it I'm going Watch Planet of the Apes instead they come out the same watchong you know what's a sad movie there's another one coming out next Friday dog oh you're watch still Magnolia I'm down I'm down Million Dollar Baby that's hella sad no that was like 3 hours too long no I am Sam is sad also very sad I was like what the ████ did I watch just hella pissed off they need to come out with another Purge those movies are fun they're

10:56 really good imagine if that happened in rer World yep we talked about it last time I mean you you want to talk about the perge more

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