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The article
"have nothing but the thasrwat criticism for
"Last wine . ISO r"nonal dint Lnn,
fro,., XM.d the pity crowded this has been handled" said Wilson the manncrinwhich
into an Italian restaurant Beebe "'=fve din ctor of
on City Island to watch a long-await d the Metropolitan Funeral Dircetors
compare' demollnration by city and 1.B_M don't understand what the problem is. Auocluion. -We simply
was a sufwate program designed officials: on display Everybody hu In eacuctl
to create death ecrtifratu but nobody has an answer.'
online.
For the funeral dinxtots and others, "Meanwhile, the City's 850 funeral
the sense of directors
p aL. A computerized system in discussion for six promise was are double-parking their
eliminate the need for funeral yeah Would hearses outside of
directors to track down harried 125 Worth Street to get (death)
doctors to sign rim tons of Thousands
of forms a year, and then certificates"
Trudge into the city lt one and only
office for death certificates, in The sense of frustration for those involved Is only
Manbattttt, and wale for them to be approved the fact that New York State and New Jersey deepened by
by a clerk. have both quietly
A fusrrating bureaucracy was developed models of wockahle systems at one-tenth
about to be defeated. Families the tap and
dcsperm to get on with the sad week of In March, New Jersey began using its
ding estates and managing life burying their dead, ses- system at one hospital
insurance policies would also be becoming the first state to do so.
relived. Aad the fntanet-based =or& Meanwhile, the city $S0 funeral directors are
could be used for public still double-park.
health research, ing their hearses outside 125 Werth Strect in
Dut six months later, the 523 Manhattan
certitimxs approved at the city % only burial desk unit, so get
million effort Is in disarray. run by the
according to city officials with knnwlcdgc of Health Department
During tesring, the sy cem the progrmn.
rcgia'd death dates that predate City and IBM officials say the project Is now
births and, for some reason, entered men on track and wilt be
tested in August
at their deaths. And that was when the as having been prcgnnnt
entirely. syatcm was not crashing
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