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THE NAMES BEH<strong>IN</strong>D<br />
THE NUMBERS<br />
A wallet, a toothbrush, a picture of a saint, a mobile<br />
phone, and some soil from the homeland – personal<br />
things as the last evidence of a past life. The owners<br />
of these objects were victims of a ship disaster in the<br />
Mediterranean Sea on 18 April 2015, in which almost<br />
1,000 refugees drowned. In June 2016, Italy had the<br />
wreck lifted and ordered the identification of the deceased.<br />
The forensic anthropologist Cristina Cattaneo<br />
is still working <strong>with</strong> her team to identify the deceased.<br />
The personal belongings are relevant documents in<br />
their efforts to trace the identity of the dead. They can<br />
lead to a name, address or country and are also shown<br />
to people searching for missing relatives.<br />
136 THE MORTUARY THE NAMES BEH<strong>IN</strong>D THE NUMBERS 137
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