Baghdad’s morgues so full, bodies being turned away – CNN.com

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Baghdad’s morgues are full.

With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries.

Men fearful of an anonymous burial are tattooing their thighs with names and phone numbers.

In October, a particularly bloody month for Iraqi civilians, about 1,600 bodies were turned in at the Baghdad central morgue, said its director, Dr. Abdul-Razaq al-Obaidi.

Two thoughts. First, the director of the morgue is worried, the article implies, about whether his computer will "bear up" under the load. I rise and move we buy him a new one. 

Second, these lines from Shakespeare’s Henry V:

I come to thee for charitable license,
That we may wander o’er this bloody field
To book our dead, and then to bury them;
To sort our nobles from our common men.
For many of our princes–woe the while!–
Lie drown’d and soak’d in mercenary blood;
… O, give us leave, great King,
To view the field in safety, and dispose
Of their dead bodies!