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Talk to a Funeral home to see what resourses are available. Sometimes the State will pay. If the person was on Medicaid, they will pay towards a cremation. Cremation is the cheapest way to go. You do not need to have a viewing or service.

In my state, a coroner does not get involved unless the death is suspicious. If the person was on hospice, the body goes to the Funeral Home requested. If under a doctors care, like a cardiologist, for 6 months before death, a coroner is not involved.
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Family pays, or, if family has no money, and it isn't important to them the disposal of a dead body that is in no way any longer their loved one, the family can refuse to pick up the body. The coroner will move to storage and burial according to your county's rules.

Do know, if you are refusing a body, that the step taken by all funeral and crematoriums that you must now do yourself is report to Social Security by phone the death of the loved one. I "imagine" the state, country, whatever does this, but wouldn't leave that you change.
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Here is a website that may help.

https://www.us-funerals.com/indigent-burials-and-cremations/
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The state cremates them. If there's no estate, the state cannot go after any family for repayment. The next of kin can claim the ashes. If no one claims the ashes they are dealt with by the funeral home in whatever way they have.
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