Out of context Tweets going around about burials in NYC on Hart Island

It has been NYC's cemetery for the very poor since 1868, with over 1 million bodies there.

Sadly, being buried in a wooden box placed in a large trench on an empty island is pretty common https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1248420495680143360

You can read this short essay I wrote about a homeless friend of mine who was buried there https://www.theawl.com/2014/11/a-prison-for-the-dead/

Or better yet, go to the Hart Island Project. Basically the result of a long effort by one very dedicated person, @hartisland

https://www.hartisland.net/