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A popular term for the zippered black bag used to transport a dead body before burial

body bag

A plastic bag for transporting a human corpse.

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A woman at Jakarta s Halim Perdanakusuma military airport, where the doomed flight took off, fainted as she watched men unload the first two body bags from a helicopter.

Indonesia jet crash bodies sent for identification

Armand MacKenzie of the Innu Nation of eastern Canada, said today, 'In Canada, I hope that the words "highest attainable standards of health" mean more than sending body bags to Indigenous First Nations communities.

Tribals at greatest risk from swine flu, says report

Sheriff's patrol cars, fire trucks and ambulances with lights flashing surrounded the wreckage while rescue crews went to work pulling two teenagers out and shoving a third in a body bag.

SOBERING EXPERIENCE SCHOOL PROGRAM DRAMATIZES AFTERMATH OF DRIVING DRUNK

Fordion Packaging, based in New Jersey, said it was owed at least pounds 120,000 for the body bags the city ordered immediately after the attacks.

Body bag firm sues

George Stone's latest installation evoked a scene from a morgue: ten gun-metal gray latex sheets, doubled to form what looked like body bags, lay stretched out on a concrete floor.

George Stone

THIS is the horrific site as all 19 people from a crashed tourist flight to Mount Everest are sealed in body bags in Nepal.

19 EVEREST TOURISTS DIE IN CRASH

HUNDREDS of extra body bags have been bought by NHS bosses in Aberdeen fearing they will be hit by a mass of swine flu deaths.

400 BODY BAGS FOR CITY AS SWINE FLU CASES FALL; Purchase branded 'panic'

Political complexity and clout on the title track comes in the form of the cutting line "the boys in body bags coming home in pieces.

Albums

I'm sitting at base camp with three body bags next to me.

SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS FOR THOUSAND OAKS CLIMBER, THE GOAL IS TO BECOME OLDEST TO REACH TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST

A COMPANY has sued New York for the cost of 100,000 body bags it said the city hastily ordered after the September 11 terror attacks but later realised were not needed.

9/11 body bags lawsuit

In this gritty and partially fictionalized memoir of a conflict so unlike their fathers' war, Herr (who had a hand in the scripts for Platoon and Apocalypse Now) has assembled these dispatches and fashioned a surrealistic account of the tedium, drugs, and body bags, and offers readers an encounter with the war that dislodged this generation.

Dispatches. (McCormick's Quick Takes)

A witness in Kandahar said he had seen three body bags brought by helicopter to a US airbase near the city.