This epidemic is now causing a strain on funeral homes as well as a state funded program that provides burial assistance for impoverished families. West Virginia's "Indigent Burial Program" has existed for decades, but with the increase of heroin-related deaths, their resources are being depleted at a faster rate. And as overdoses rise many funeral homes are finding that they cannot keep up with the demand for services.
The Indigent Burial Program is a unique program because a majority of states don't provide such services at the state level, and most of the ones that do, limit them to recipients of Medicaid, SNAP or other social programs for the poor. Frederick Kitchen, president of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association, said the state Department of Human Services earmarks almost $2 million a year to help cover the burial costs for destitute individuals. The state offers funeral homes $1,250 per person to cover expenses in cases where the deceased has no funds nor anyone willing or able to pay the funeral costs.
Comment: The above mentioned Times article lists the names of the five friends at Murray's house that night who provided the collective contradictory statement. Lyle Canceko, Roger Hyhus and Joe Loeffler, along with Adrian Matanza and Maggie Thomson, two of his staff members.
According to an August 25, 2015 article by NBC News, a Lyle Canceko was hired to Hillary Clinton's campaign as Northeast Political Director. HIs name appears several times in the Podesta/Clinton Wikileaks emails.
CEO Roger Nyhus is a career 'strategic' manipulator with long ties in business and politics in Washingon State, Washington D.C. and globally.
Joe Loeffler, prior to taking his position as an accountant with Nyhus, represented a 'collection of Washington States interests' in DC. In 2013, The Hill listed him as one of their '50 Most Beautiful', revealing comparisons to the child-friendly fictional characters, Superman and Harry Potter. In 2008, he also managed field operations for the Obama campaign.
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