These unclaimed dead bodies are stuck in limbo in freezers outside the Health Sciences Centre

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These freezer containers, holding about 28 bodies at last count, sit in an alley between the Janeway children’s hospital and MUN’s school of medicine. (Danny Arsenault/CBC)

A smattering of nondescript storage containers sit nestled on a concrete slab in a back alley in St. John’s, taking up a couple of hundred square feet between the Janeway children’s hospital and Memorial University’s school of medicine.

A large, bright green dumpster is pushed up against the rail that cordons them off.

Anyone making use of the nearby busy parking lot — only a stone’s throw away — would likely pay no attention to the scene.

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But the containers

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