Hypothermia killing New Orleans homeless

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Dropping temperatures in New Orleans appear to have caused two homeless people to die of hypothermia, officials say.

The Orleans Parish coroner's office said Friday frigid temperatures likely caused a homeless man and woman to die of body heat loss in separate incidents this week, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported.

Officials said the body of 48-year-old Janice Collins was found Thursday on a sidewalk by a concerned citizen and responding emergency officials pronounced her dead at the scene.

Collins' relatives reportedly had offered her a place in their home during the nearly 28-degree weather, but she chose to live under the Crescent City Connection instead.

Two hours after Collins' body was found, 54-year-old Michael Przesmycki's body was found in a New Orleans parking lot.

UPI

[Naturyl]

1. May they rest in peace

Two more casualties of this primitive system. I honor their sacrifice. Whether they knew it or not, they were doing spiritual work and their deaths are not in vain.

One fine day, we will finally say "enough of this" - and it will because we have finally evolved a conscience and become tired of seeing things like this.