Death won't take a holiday (Funeral homes & the Democratic Convention)

[Khephra]

For months, state Senator Steven A. Baddour's office has fielded calls on just about every gripe imaginable about the upcoming Democratic National Convention, from bus companies worrying about access to South Station to commuters complaining about the shutdown of Interstate 93. The cochairman of the Joint Committee on Transportation, considering himself a problem-solver, had an answer for most of them. But then John Linnehan called.

"I didn't have an answer on this one," the senator confessed recently.

It turns out nobody did.

The caller was a Haverhill funeral home owner who raised a point that was apparently overlooked as federal and local law enforcement officials finalized plans for one of the most complex and expansive security lockdowns in the city's history. With some 40 miles of roadway being closed for the convention and with hospitals and nursing homes located in or near a zone of heightened security around the FleetCenter, the caller wondered if arrangements had been made to transport the dead.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/10/death_wont_take_a_holiday/

[saracat]

1. Now this is something that NEVER would occur to me!