Published by Dior Noir on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 3:00 pm.

Former Motown executive and philanthropist, Shanti Das, is bringing the city of Detroit good news for the new year by way of her recently formed organization May We Rest In Peace!

Due to the economy some residents have been unable to bury their loved ones which has resulted in plastic body bags piling up in the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s refrigerated storage rooms to the tune of 3,700 bodies a year.

According to Essence when Das read a headline in CNN Money that said, “Detroit: Too Broke To Bury Their Dead,” followed with an image of the bodies she decided to do she decided to do something about it that night.

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