Every year, hundreds of New Hampshire residents are cremated, and their remains sit, unclaimed by family or friends, in funeral homes and crematoriums across the state. In recent years, the amount of taxpayer dollars used to fund those cremations has steadily increased.
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New Hampshire law requires that city and town welfare departments pay for the cremation and burial services of unclaimed people, and those whose family and friends can’t afford to or live too far away.