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"he worked in the pit after 9/11 with the fatality team, and worked as an EMT and assisted the New York City Coroner" General’ s Office during and in the aftermath of the disaster. She spent six months at New York"s Ground Zero site.. blessed human remains pulled from the smoldering debris of Ground Zero, prayed with the workers who painstakingly combed the rubble each day and comforted relatives of the dead when they visited the site" (as per and also her obituary in the Associated Press). Mahoney was born in Camden, South Carolina to Dallas John Mahoney, Junior. and (the late) Elizabeth Jennings Mahoney.
Sister Cindy summoned, the lawyer representing thousands of ailing "Ground Zero" workers, to her Aiken, South Carolina hospice and requested that he act as her guardian and fulfill her dying wish by overseeing her autopsy after she"s gone.. post-traumatic stress syndrome, Worby said.
She had witnessed World Trade Center victims burn or jump to their deaths, and prayed over countless human remains. Mahoney asked that results of her autopsy be used in any class-action lawsuit filed by ground zero workers who say the air around the site has sickened them ().
Mahoney died, aged 54, on November 1, 2006 at her Aiken, South Carolina home. She had been suffering from asthma, reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
She believed that the cause of these ailments was her exposure to toxic substances at "Ground Zero".
