*Statistics of cremations Cremations Total Deaths % of Deaths
2016 141,553 615,261 23.01
2017 155,155 649,061 23.90
Number of crematoria: 79
Looks like ~150,000 cremations a year for Italy
https://www.cremation.org.uk/Italy-2018
March 16, 2020 at 6:25 p.m. UTC
ROME — In the part of Italy hit hardest by the coronavirus, the crematorium has started operating 24 hours a day. Coffins have filled up two hospital morgues, and then a cemetery morgue, and are now being lined up inside a cemetery church. The local newspaper's daily obituary section has grown from two or three pages to 10, sometimes listing more than 150 names, in what the top editor likens to "war bulletins."
By death toll alone, the coronavirus has landed in the northern province of Bergamo with the force of a historic disaster.
But its alarming power goes even further, all but ensuring that death and mourning happen in isolation — a trauma in which everybody must keep to themselves.
So many have died that there is a waiting list for burial and cremation.
“I think it’s worse than a war,” said Marta Testa, 43, who is in self-quarantine and whose father died Wednesday of the virus at age 85. “Dad is waiting to be buried. And we are here waiting to tell him goodbye.”
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http://archive.vn/PdnHp#selection-1127.0-1127.72
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>So many have died that there is a waiting list for burial and cremation.
Bergamo crematorium can't keep up with a 40 corpse per week pace
same WaFagPost article
Even as the illness has spread around the world, it is in Italy where people are contracting the virus — and dying of it — more rapidly than anywhere else. On Sunday, the country reported 368 new deaths, a toll exceeding even the highest daily figures from China. By Monday, 349 more people had died, bringing the total in less than one month to 2,158.
And within Italy, Bergamo, a wealthy province of 1.1 million to the east of Milan, has become the most worrying hot spot. Hospitals are at the breaking point there. Military doctors have been called in to assist. Residents describe Bergamo as a ghostly place where only ambulances and hearses are on the road at night. In the small town of Nembro, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, 70 people have died in the past 12 days. Some 120 died all of last year.
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70 people have died in the past 12 days. Some 120 died all of last year.
the crematorium has started operating 24 hours a day
>there is a waiting list for burial and cremation.
<Bergamo crematorium can't keep up with a 40 corpse per week pace
Any anons know if cremation technology is better or worse than in the 1940s?