OBAMA'S CHANGE:"More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs..."

Albert Gaskin, caretaker at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, looks over the cremated remains of unclaimed bodies.(Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times)

The poor economy is taking a toll even on the dead, with an increasing number of bodies in Los Angeles County going unclaimed by families who cannot afford to bury or cremate their loved ones...