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'We Have No Space': LA County Funeral Director Describes Virus's Toll

Todd Beckley, a funeral director in Los Angeles County, says COVID-19 deaths have overwhelmed his mortuary. It is so overwhelmed there is waiting list that's 23 families long.
A casket is loaded into a hearse at the Boyd Funeral Home as burials at cemeteries are delayed to the surge of COVID-19 deaths on Jan. 14, 2021 in Los Angeles.

Most of us don't have to think too often about the logistics of dying and about what closure, like wakes, funerals, memorials, actually requires.

But Todd Beckley has to. The Los Angeles County-area funeral director says he's never experienced anything like the coronavirus pandemic. He says that Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary where he works is so overwhelmed,

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