PITTSBURGH (AP) A Beaver county filmmaker wants to honor dozens of mental health patients who have been buried in an overgrown cemetery ... by cleaning up the cemetery and putting up a memorial. The 1300 graves sit neglected, covered by brush and vegetation, ... marked only by numbered stones. The patients buried there were cast aside by their families when they were alive and never reclaimed in death.
REMEMBERING THE DEAD
In the end, even the earth forgot where they were placed.
Before that, their families had forgotten them,
exhausted and scared into turning away
years before death arrived. Once they died,
they were not missed, not mourned.
Mothers ...