Joshua Kirby #4 - Burial

1,203. The dead far outnumbered the living at the ceremony. The latter count being only twelve, if you include the priest. He delivered his eulogy with a special brand of empty reverence, reserved for only this mass ceremony. Every year, thousands of dead go unclaimed, no relatives and no estate to pay for a proper burial. They end up here, to the annual mass ceremony on April 1st. The only mourners are a few county workers and two community outreachers who wished they could do more. Cremated and mixed, they rest together in a large plot, annotated only by a plaque saying the year and the plot's population.