Technically, a funeral parlor would have made a killing with all these corpses. However, did you ever wonder what happens when too many corpses go unclaimed?

The funeral parlor just can’t throw the bodies away and has to shoulder some of the cost of having an unclaimed corpse buried in accordance with health and sanitation rules. However, in this case, the funeral parlor may not have had enough budget to cover the costs to dispose of all these unclaimed corpses properly.

On Tue, Oct 18, Quezon City health officials recovered at least 120 unclaimed, rotting cadavers from Henry’s Funeral Homes in La Loma, Quezon City.

The corpses were reportedly “in advanced states of decomposition, and have attracted a horde of rats and flies.”

“The city health department first discovered some 50 bodies during a surprise inspection last Fri, Oct 14, but found about 70 more cadavers when they returned there this week,” reports Jeff Hernaez on ABS-CBN News Online.

Health officer Dr. Verdades Linga was quoted as saying, “We are now removing the dead. It’s difficult because some of the bodies have decomposed down to the bone while others have badly mangled flesh. The stench is so bad that even those collecting the corpses are complaining.”

Nadiskubreng mga nabubulok na bangkay sa isang punerarya sa La Loma, QC, umabot sa mahigit 120 pic.twitter.com/HrAhqRLJHq | via @jeffreyhernaez — DZMM TeleRadyo (@DZMMTeleRadyo) October 18, 2016

The report noted: “The Quezon City government in September ordered the closure of the morgue, but it continued accepting unidentified bodies even as the stench of rotting corpses spread to nearby houses and caused some residents to fall ill.”

Linga explained, “The funeral home has a huge liability on why it stored the bodies here, and why it continued its operations in spite of the revocation and cancellation of its business permit.”

Mga nabubulok na bangkay sa punerarya sa La loma, QC, binendisyunan. Mass burial, inihahanda na pic.twitter.com/sgs47UwALu | @jeffreyhernaez — DZMM TeleRadyo (@DZMMTeleRadyo) October 18, 2016

The city health office is coordinating with the civil registry to find a mass grave for the bodies. They are also set to disinfect the houses in the area.As of 3:50pm on Tue, Oct 18, officials were said to be “still checking death certificates to verify whether the bodies were of drug suspects slain in connection with the government’s anti-narcotics campaign.”

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