The bodies of over 1,000 Quebecers went unclaimed last year. What’s going on?
Called in as the chaplain for a dying woman a few years ago, Father Rodney Clark recalls the harsh administrative reality that immediately followed her death.
The woman was homeless and had chosen medical assistance in dying at the Joliette, Que., hospital after her cancer metastasized.
But with no relatives around or financial resources, her body was essentially abandoned.
