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Officials now grapple with the multimillion-dollar question of what exactly to do with all of these corpses.

New findings indicate that thousands of corpses are buried on the grounds of a Mississippi mental asylum that shut down nearly a century ago.

Underground radar shows that as many as 7,000 patients’ bodies lie underneath what was once the Mississippi State Insane Asylum. Shuttered in 1935, the asylum sat on what is now the site of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, reports The Clarion-Ledger.

Now UMMC, which wants to build on the ground in question, must decide how exactly to deal with all of these bodies. Exhuming and reburying the bodies would cost about $3,000 each for a total of approximately $21 million. However, UMMC is now also weighing a cheaper, in-house exhumation alternative that would cost closer to $3.2 million.

Furthermore, the university would like to establish both a memorial and a lab at which researchers could study these remains and investigate what life was like inside a mental institution 100 years or more ago.
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