Nepal Disaster: What Happens to the Bodies? | Retired Mortician Explains

Nepal Disaster: What Happens to the Bodies? | A Retired Mortician Explains More than 1,340 bodies recovered. Ninety-six given back to a family with a name on them. I spent thirty-four years as a funeral director and embalmer, and this is what the recovery teams in Nepal are actually up against: why visual identification stops working, why two of the three primary identifiers are useless there, and why nearly a thousand people were buried under numbered steel plates instead of names. Figures as of 08:00, 5 September 2026 (Nepal Police). They are moving daily. This was not an earthquake and no Chinese dam failed. No victim is named and no graphic imagery is shown.