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Makeshift funerals on street corners for those dead of ODs in Philly | Mike Newall

In Philadelphia, 1,217 people died of overdoses last year. And so many of the dead come in with nothing, without even a name.

Mary Beth Appel, left, a nurse at the Catholic Worker Clinic in Kensington, talks with Arnetta Ferguson, right, who asked to be checked out physically while she was hanging out at the corner of Hagert and Kensington on Wednesday April 25, 2018.
Mary Beth Appel, left, a nurse at the Catholic Worker Clinic in Kensington, talks with Arnetta Ferguson, right, who asked to be checked out physically while she was hanging out at the corner of Hagert and Kensington on Wednesday April 25, 2018.Read moreMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer