Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, October 18, 2016.
Strangers come together to bury the unclaimed body of a baby
Around 75 people attended the funeral of Baby Jazlene Sunday, although none of them knew her during her short life. The Sun-Times chronicles the story of the infant, born premature, whose body went unclaimed at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office after her death at University of Chicago Medical Center. “I feel like it’s important to be here,” funeral attendee Suzanne Matusiewicz told the newspaper. “I try to come for every single one, because I feel like it’s my calling to help bury them.” The child’s mother, Brianna Branham, told the Sun-Times that she couldn’t afford the $100 cremation fee and had intended to give her daughter’s body to science. [Sun-Times]
