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Mortuaries are so full that refrigerated containers had to be set up to store some of the bodies.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022

Mortuaries and crematoriums, too, can step up to prevent accidents by asking about specific If warranted kinds of medical device implants and sensors on cremation authorization forms.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017

WARRI, Nigeria — Mortuaries on Sunday overflowed with the bodies of the at least 160 people killed in the collapse of a southern Nigeria church building whose construction, worshipers said, had been rushed.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2016

Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday’s tragedy, medical director Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told The Associated Press.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2016

Mortuaries were shorn of their luxuriance; when effects were small, no mortuary should be required; when large, the clergy should content themselves with a modest share.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony