I recently had cause to check a website which lists unidentified bodies found in the UK. It was for a work project...I don't work for the police though and so I was shocked by it all.
I was especially touched by one woman whose body was found last year...almost a year ago anyway...she was found at the bottom of Beachy Head....it says she jumped.
She's aged 30-40 and nobody has identified her. I must be getting morbid in my old age but I keep checking to see if anyone has identified her and nobody has. :(
I know it's unhealthy for me to think too much about things like this but I so wish I could name her. There are so many others of course but maybe this one touched me because she's similar in age to me. There are sensitive photos of her and though they upset me (they're not gory just sad) I keep looking at her and googling missing people to try to find who she could be.
AIBU?
To get so moved over unidentified bodies?
TheHouseOnBellSt · 22/07/2015 22:53
Yep I've done that a few times. Followed a link on a missing childand ended up getting mesmerised by all the found people
seems even worse somehow that there's little children, dead and unknown.
America seems to have loads 
Omg 
one of the American 13 to 17 yr Olds found dead in 1979 was identified this year. That makes my day
That's just so sad.
makes you wonder if she really had no one or whether some massive communication error has meant that any girlfriend/boyfriend/parent has no idea and is still holding out hope she turns up one day.
It's so tragic.
no one's given her a "send off"
and people are living in limbo waiting fir news
I work in homelessness. I can believe it Some people have no one.
I volunteer with homeless shelters and there is one young man on the streets local to me who has just disappeared
There is a small chance he's moved on but he was fading and slipping away.
I can only hope he is safe.
yy there was a bag so why no phone?
The possibilities are endless
so sad that for whatever reason she can't be identified.
We can send people to the moon and to previously unseen depths of the ocean. but somehow someone's daughter/sister/wife/cousin can't be identified.
and if she was suicidal the idea she had no one who would even notice she was gone is beyond sad.
I am adamant that someone will know who she is, even if they don't know she is deceased. I can't look at the link tonight, but I do send my thoughts to all those who have died and remain unidentified and hope that they are identified and given a correct burial/etc.
Web pages like this shouldn't happen, they should be identified.
It is very sad
Does anyone know how what happens to the remains of these people? There must be some kind of funeral, but what, and when, and who does it, and what do they say??
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