Pima County Indigent Interment Program
The County may provide cremation and burial services for persons who have died within the county for circumstances in which next of kin are financially unable to pay for arrangements or in which the decedent is unclaimed or abandoned. Please visit our
Indigent Interment Program page for more information on assistance options.
Pima County Indigent Cemetery:
The Walter H. Birkby Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
The Walter H. Birkby Forensic Anthropology Laboratory, located within the PCOME, conducts forensic anthropological analyses to determine human versus non-human remains, the medicolegal significance of human remains, and positive identifications.
Services provided by our Forensic Anthropologists include:
- Anthropological processing of decomposed, partially skeletonized, and burned bodies
- Radiological analysis
- Skeletal analysis and inventory
- Estimation of the biological profile
- Skeletal trauma analysis
- Buried body excavation
- Human/non-human discrimination
Data Dashboards & Reports
Data is limited to deaths reported to and certified by the PCOME. Not all deaths that occur require reporting to or investigation by the appointed Medical Examiner. The majority of natural deaths are certified by a decedent’s healthcare provider (i.e., counts of natural deaths in the PCOME dataset do not reflect the total number of natural deaths in a county).
Data Dashboards (updated monthly)
Please refer to our reference guide for information on how to use the PCOME data dashboards.
Annual Reports