Louis Cataldie Quotations

A lot of these folks have been casketed for a long time, so we've only got bones to deal with, ... Evidently, it's not mandatory to place identification inside the casket, which was news to me. That's not helping.

We discourage family members from coming here, ... They will not be allowed on the premises. This is not the place to come.

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

My heart goes out to the folks here locally,

I don't know how many people have died,

I say if we got a cot and air conditioning, go for it. But that's me. If I had my way we'd be able to do them in a week.

I think it's important for everybody to understand that it's about the individual, ... It's about the little lady with the big brown eyes who is in the Superdome in all that filth who looks at you and you can't do anything for. And somebody hands you a limp kid. And when you come back to her, she's dead.

I don't want people being alarmed, ... I don't want inflated numbers. My God, it's horrible enough.

I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.