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The Sunday Read: 'The Lonely Death of George Bell'
Thousands die in New York every year. Some of them alone. The city might weep when the celebrated die, or the innocent are slain, but for those who pass in an unwatched struggle, there is no one to mourn for them and their names, simply added to a death table.
In 2014, George Bell, 72, was among those names. He died alone in his apartment in north central Queens.
On today’s Sunday Read, what happens when someone dies, and no one is there to arrange their funeral? And who exactly was George Bell?
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