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A Hart Island burial is not disrespectful, it's a very sacred place.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hart Island is Hart Island, everybody is handled the same. There is a beauty to that. It's very Walt Whitman in a funny way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I started going there in 1991 during the AIDS epidemic, so many of my friends in the arts community just disappeared and we never knew what happened to their bodies. ... It took a long time before we flew a drone and found those grave sites.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The thing the politicians should be doing is talking about Hart Island differently because it's the largest natural burial ground in the United States, it's a really beautiful location, and it's already transferred to Parks. They will take over in July 2021 and turn it into a beautiful place.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's a lot of wildlife out there, it's a bird sanctuary. It's a very, very peaceful location. And the fact there aren't individual monuments is part of the spiritual power of the place, knowing that over a million New Yorkers have been buried there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It goes all the way back to the Civil War, with the Union army having to bury huge numbers of soldiers on battlefields in the South, they had to do this with ledgers and grid system such that they could come back later to disinter and rebury in national cemeteries.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to do away with the shame and talk about it as a good place to be buried, a lot of people are unemployed now. We want people to feel the city is doing right by them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no real choice here, this is where the majority of Covid-19 victims are going to be buried. It disproportionately affects the low income community who can't really isolate and avoid using the subways. By the same token those same people can't afford a funeral.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's natural when something is locked away in the prison system to imagine the worst.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
A decent burial does not involve prison inmates burying your loved one.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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