journey with her husband's corpse-

[SoCalDem]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.bowie.ap/index.html

journey with her husband's corpse..Katrina leaves no one to deal with the dead

Wednesday, August 31, 2005;
Posted: 12:21 p.m. EDT (16:21 GMT)



NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) --

When Xavier Bowie died in a flooded New Orleans neighborhood, his wife did the best she could in a city so preoccupied with saving the living that no one can deal with the dead.

She wrapped his body in a sheet, laid him on a makeshift bier of plywood boards, with a little help, and floated him down to the main road.

For more than an hour, Evelyn Turner waited along Rampart Street outside the French Quarter, her husband's body resting on the grassy median as car after car passed, their wakes threatening to wash over the corpse.

"This is ridiculous," Turner, 54, said as she sobbed into a dirty washcloth

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[spuddonna]

1. omg...

That poor woman... God bless her... :cry:

[Suich]

2. Oh my. This breaks my heart.

:cry: :hug:

[Beelzebud]

3. i feel like my heart is breaking today

[riverwalker]

4. did she pay for that plastic sheeting?

or was it "looted"? You know thievery is never justified, I heard it on a DU board. :sarcasm:

[Ilsa]

5. I think it was just a cotton blend sheet, you know, like from off the bed.

That poor woman.

[qanda]

6. Unbelievably sad

I'm all choked up, what is there to say? God bless this poor lady.