{"id":886776,"date":"2026-09-07T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886776\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:38:09","slug":"opinion-surge-of-unclaimed-bodies-in-quebec-an-invitation-for-us-all-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886776\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Surge of unclaimed bodies in Quebec an invitation for us all to show up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if, at the last opportunity to say goodbye to you, no one was there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent news reports, citing Sant\u00e9 Qu\u00e9bec statistics, indicate <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2274729\/the-bodies-of-over-1-000-quebecers-went-unclaimed-last-year-whats-going-on\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2274729\/the-bodies-of-over-1-000-quebecers-went-unclaimed-last-year-whats-going-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the number of unclaimed bodies in the province doubled from 448 in 2020 to 992 in 2025<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Areas of the province that previously never saw any unclaimed bodies are now reporting cases as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if, at the last opportunity to say goodbye to you, no one was there? Recent news reports,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-886776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}