@[email protected] to New York Times gift [email protected]English • 5 months agoAshes Were Given to His Family. But He Wasn’t Dead. Tyler Chase, 22, was living in transitional housing in Portland, Ore., when the authorities misidentified a body as his and cremated it.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkAshes Were Given to His Family. But He Wasn’t Dead. Tyler Chase, 22, was living in transitional housing in Portland, Ore., when the authorities misidentified a body as his and cremated it.www.nytimes.com@[email protected] to New York Times gift [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-square@canlinkEnglish21•5 months ago Mr. Chase’s life coursed through years of drug use, homelessness, severed family ties and a bureaucracy that documented his death without his fingerprints or any immediate family present when the body believed to be his was cremated. This is so sad. This is a person.
This is so sad. This is a person.