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a majority in name is following massive as strikes pine brush, that's at least a 5 people account. there's waves of mist files and drugs. cognitive power on both sides across the country. executive president asked allies for help to be fell sense of tax that's. it's your up to date on our old world news at the top of the have a good day. my name is the calls back. say, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud means would it be nosy bay like good, everyone to king. check out the award winning called com. so hold back. but on i see india is holy city. the use of hindus believe whoever
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dies here will be saved so much for us. that's the celebration here. i meet people who make a living from dying lots of another game before you i dreamed of studying. i'm leading a better life. it's not having to do this job for us. i mean, but honestly i'm pushed to my limits the but i also meet people with incredible strength. i'm never really afraid the and i learned that dying doesn't have to be a terrible thing. i should make sense that
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the a few years ago i lost my mother. it took me quite some time to process her desk. i was offering extremely sad. it said that here in this hospice in but on the seat depth is approached very differently. it's known as the by one house of salvation. the country is a priest year at about one. the begins
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is rituals early in the morning the usually the priests would carry them out in private. an exception has been made for me to be present. while the applies wholly ash to a stone through the process, the stone becomes the symbol of a hymn. do god. yeah. but the people who come to us are seeking salvation guests believe that if they die in toronto, see if they can escape the cycle of return and reverse. we're company of them by playing songs on some different basel die and water from the countries. so on. if i make an image that can you explain to me again, the main route woods of multi by on and why you have these woods? and this is the new ended up. how do i get for people who come to us have stream
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days to die? who lives out as long as those seeking salvation should come here. so no one should stay here for free accommodation or for months. no man, that's the only i am here is salvation that he's the most. can you help him much about anybody? my son was the 15 days to die. to me that sounds almost stressful. like having a clock ticking for your final brands, but devout hindus don't seem bothered by it. the . are all 10 rooms full sometimes. huh. for the system. yes, of course. sometimes all the rooms are occupied with some of september or october. all the rooms were really full. the yeah. hey, so this is the room room has met the cup. yes,
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exactly. this is that we have 2 beds from top to bottom. one for the person seeking salvation and one for the person accompanying them. sometimes more family members come up now, then we laughed mattresses on the floor. and what were your most hearted at their own? was the eat didn't, but with the modes that's the room only costs $0.20 a night. why is it so cheap? on disappear. he sat approaching that are missing. people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20 so that not too much electricity is used for the hurt to that that'd be necessary to the low amount is also to remind them they shouldn't stay here with us. and definitely the room is really just meant for moving into self patients or is it is so the healthcare for me? so you know, kind of the,
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to me, it seems rather sparse, almost stereo, the contents in india for many, it's the best thing to die, right. here in a completely unfamiliar environment, without any comfort, some for the future, i'll meet another person whose final wish is to dine. but honestly, it's an encounter that will touch me deeply. the core, devout hindus thought honestly, is a very special city. it's here that one of their principal deities, she is said to reside the india, as long as the river also flows through here the ganges for many hindus, it's the physical manifestation of the goddess gund. it's believed that the eating
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and again jesus can help wash away all since the film this is to are said to be cured with just one sip of the holy water. the one body also believes in the power of the river for over 50 years. he's been growing on the ganges. i'm gonna say hello, how are you? yeah. how they're both very well and that's how i've come down here. what's your name? my name is ron bonnie, that i'm not modeling oliver. ron rom is a gaunt body stands for the monkey guard. the monkey room is an especially powerful
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god. the drum, by the is 73 years old. he spent his whole life in, but honestly he tells me that he owes all his energy and health to the ganges. come pick up here and you sometimes drink the water as well. me. he thought, oh, yes, of course. yes, dick know, even now this one department, now he's drinking the water. is the water divided boundaries? water you are only water. what do you like? the studies have shown how polluted the ganges can be in around us. the water is so toxic that fish can barely survive here though the science seems to play a less important role than face the i'm
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you know, got a person must have based in the ganges at least 3 times like the kindred. once off the bus, i'll be coming for the 2nd day of the 2nd time off to the wedding. it's just the time after death. as the gates, the jess is ever present on the ganges. sometimes even with corpses floating in the water, the gonna get to me, i get to know now, but i do problems and things like that done with all the mental trip. i'll just keep growing. i do believe that it's just a body. the soul has long since left it towards the middle. go often we die. a bottle that snapped is unlikely. auntie, i must get the money, but it isn't surprisingly silver thought for me. i find it
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hard to separate the body from the essence of the deceased. i visit the place where most bodies are cremated, environment see the money kind of got the smoke, the smell, and what i see, overwhelms me. the gas is visible everywhere. the there's no attempt to hide the burning bodies organs for charged limbs. the for this man, it's all part of everyday life. cremating corpses is patched, cozy,
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chilled harvey's job. the . the you put by the 33 years old now side when i 1st came here, age 13, they cut the lead type, orange may be 4 or 5 corpses a year upon me body i later it became more to me. i washed a dad in the country so you know, did look very different here. but then when i went to the sampling district or not, but i basically work all the time at the phone. if i don't do the job, who will let me take care of everything for you to jump on the job and they did die knowing what otherwise job monday and then they job related that it must be tough
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or the judge goes. he is a member of the dumb cast, one of the lowest in indian society, the urns about 2 and a half euros for a fire. it takes about 3 hours to burn the body, the calendar. again, i do see that i suppose it's all routine and no upcoming. no, it's normal for you. go out there high, we have your habits. yes, i'm used to but we would, we still treat the data. see wouldn't being some, one of them would even talk to them in time and they maybe did. what do you, the, the date patch goes, he explains to me, ought to be buried with dignity during breaks. he gets into the ganges where the ashes of the distinct star scattered the
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here he looks for valuables. sometimes he gets lucky as he has now finding a chain. the dog in the murky, polluted water. he can barely see where he is stepping. the i can put myself in this glass here, best to throw it away. but it's hard for me to comprehend the conditions. patch cozy has to work under and i haven't mints, respect for what he does the
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of the i wonder if he would prefer another job. nicholson to allow me that will of course, we'd like to follow another profession. but the work here means a lot to me though my god gave me the opportunity of a new job and i would take it to this the otherwise i'll stay here because he has 3 children. it's his wish for them not to have to one day work here at the money county car got i'll meet him again in a few days. then he'll tell me, use plans to create a better future for them. the
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at 6 am, i receive a message from the hospice. they wanted me to come as quickly as possible. so gone and looked about. one has been empty. uh, get somebody i get out of here. we just received a call from the owner saying that a person arrived last night to come there. but i meant that you want to die right here in, but honestly, not enough to stay on the on deadlines besides, they've asked if we want to come and talk to the family. so we're on our way there now, you know, i'm typically and also may talk to him the, i have great respect for the chance to meet a dying person and their family. the
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of some 20 family members are taking care of the elderly man. i am suddenly and certainly if we should even be here, we are doing a movie about the best in that and i see and then is it okay if we talk to you, if you like, look how you would deal with a one situation? is that okay? for your help with today, i mean, i saw no problem at all about the speed we're happy to share with people who may be don't know much about our religion and show them how we approach this difficult situation. the problem that i learned that the sick man is his father in law. his name is shree, low connect you body, he's 82 years old and can only breeze with the help of a ventilator multi,
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you can see anymore. everything is doc this by someplace. it's hard for us baby with even with live. he's really in a critical condition, congress that we can pull family quote. are you happy that years you invite? honestly not see me here. not a very happy little, very, very happy to be called your he's blessing is always with us because of the simple fact that love, but we thank you for talking to us in this difficult time. i am here, you know, you came to us and the i'm so new that is really kind of you feel like that's so much all
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the the, the service is so far. this has been for me the most extreme situation. we have sound he's a mean, it's been the least family, naturally concerned for a family member who is about to die has done the less welcoming us into their circle. biased, shabby on dealings thoughts in m. b a and e and kind of wants to show us how their culture works, how they deal with death, gives a quote to us on so near the museum, it's important in the
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i ask one of his sons tundra to body why it was important enough for the whole family to travel to about honestly young, who we used to live with died you guys have somebody except the day when my father ties, i can i want him to die happy. you know, i want to have a family to be that jammed up until now he's been stuck in the attendant aside for the free, but the pacific dining here in toronto. so you should finally break that. so when i called the guy put a, not me to ask you to, going to, to look to when my mother was about to die of health. very, very sad. i feel like you, people are sad, but also happy at the same time. is that right? i seen the roof, the looks of it as soon as i was gonna make sense. got them on. i definitely do see
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on my s death is a celebration for us. it's one of the most important rituals like about a marriage. we celebrate that is at least so much behind you. so much pain. making him do is talk about let being 8400000 different life forms to be on my, on the phone as a human is to be blessed by golf. children off the lucky only as a human can you achieve salvation to be done with the product design? just nope, betterments. assuming you're being sort of the same model that if you missed the chart because you have to go through the entire cycle again, probably to little bit, i don't, but not in that you. when did you decide that he would come here to about and see, and how did you organize that the whole assembly? and as i go to ask him the next question, it suddenly goes dark. uh, he's got to stay among his kind of stairs, a power outage here, which of course isn't terrible because the ventilator for his father has now
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stopped in stands for the 1st time, the room grows restless. it seems as if death is become more real, more tangible for the family, the i suspect the family would prefer to be alone for the time being the on the banks of the ganges. i need the seller rum, yadda, whose families lived in. but on a see for 7 generations the
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but i'm g was so close to me, money kind of got and what kind of people do you need? do you mean sad people? do you mean people that i happy it that they are relates has passed away here in about and i see what kind of impression do you get from the people here. there's one gun. god forbid of id. i've seen many people who have just lost a loved one. come to my 2 shots as though it's often the case of the saddle cry, a key that the roof that i'm not a little comment of. yeah. so if we cut them up, we tied, you might have some struggle with losing their fault them of a life. let us know how the family members of and my love, it just doesn't matter. they, how can you come for these people? do you would try to give them some comforts to your food through your teeth, through talking? how do you do it? yeah. what us out on zillow, whatever they put,
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i remember the people tell me about their problems. i explained to them that god has given each of us a new set number of days. people are always looking for money, your happiness. everything from birth and death is predestined by god. tell them there's no reason to cry. yeah, they can live happily in peace. isn't what everyone has lost someone they loved at some point. oh yeah, that one. is it multiple? yes. everyone has to go some by separate point. okay. might i add? i never really agree. i add a semi i thought of. yeah. not once again, i'm made aware that death here isn't necessarily seen is something terrible. i ask him if he's afraid of dying himself. he doesn't live in my. yeah, it's always gotten to the, i'm not afraid of best. there's no reason to worry. i'll be afraid. mark, but one day i will try to draw the embrace the best to make friends with that is what's on. even on those i level you know,
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the evenings in but honestly every day a ceremony to honor the ganges is held on the river bank, the thousands of worshippers gather here. the spiritual significance of the city holds means of many can make a living here. the job is 9 years old. the each day, her mother paints her up as the he knew the chief,
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the family, including a 5 year old brother has been homeless for some time. the mazda of the, i need, you know, kind of what i mean. i don't have a husband. that's why we live here on the river bank. so we came him mainly because of my heart condition. when i give you guys to an, at least a little money off the line, you just would like to have a room, but we can't afford it. how did you get the idea of her walking around, dressed as a lot cheaper mazda, of all, the, a lot of people suggested it to me, you know, i know they told me to have no husband. and you need to how to operate action by simply your daughter could walk around us. chiva does not need about 500 or 600 yours for the operation of so that'd be so we're trying to get the money this way.
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for example, the, the contract collects around 500 rupees in one day, a little over 5 years. and again, i feel bad about it, but i can't see any other way. once i have enough money for the operation, i'll stop sending her out one from one of them. what does your daughter say? she seems like a happy child that she sometimes complain that she understand what she's doing their life. as i know, she never complains who's got a she does a lot for me, yet. she always tells me i live only a few lives. that's why she's collecting money from my operation.
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the every afternoon follows the same routine, the after applying makeup con john mean goes with the tourist hoping to bring home as much money as possible. i send me money and i will attach but just gives me $0.50. but don't have that much and i'm just give it to me now for the the stuff that the the yeah, the golf show if i woke up, oh, that's enough. no, i'm not taking that. take this $0.20. yeah. the live over to
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the, to the condo has collected just under for yours and know for a little food for her family, but not enough to save for the operation the, the, but i don't feel good about what i'm doing. i'm only doing it from my mother in white glove. people even call me back or last long. i always tell them i'm not the bigger on the day. our phone, big mamma them do you sometimes get in dangerous situations or situations that you don't like? what sounds says that i'm going that actually i'm never afraid. i'm only scared at
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the thought that my mother might die. i don't want my mother to dine now. the i admired casual strength and i find it terrible that this 9 year old has to deal with death. so early in life, the death and life in the by one. they're close neighbors. a man dies and right next to him, children play the the alongside them. the family of 20 also needs to be taken care of the
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on human the ok, the be great. honda got a guy that's life. it shows the young people come here when the doctor says that there's nothing more they can do well. no final wishes to come to go to relax to miss. we're thinking about one cuz i don't know, maybe i never dies here in toronto. see, can consider themselves lucky. i've been said to, to the children of course, don't understand all this. yeah. but they have the they don't know what's happening here. a guy. oh, yeah. and they would say, what would you done? design a focus on monday. have you done? no, they came with the whole family, a stop study by to me. so can as many people come as they like, i'm here to say comes are going to the other thing. i mean, while at least 2 people should have company and the sick person available, in this case, it's 15 to 20 headed for sometimes 10 or 15 family members come that,
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that those can you avoid them? i never say no. i am here. everyone is offered a roof over there had to be somewhere else within iowa and most of the, the, the dying are blessed. 3 times a day. park of the ritual includes drinking a drop of the ganges holy water. the, the the family sees mainly the good for the relative do up in the future to do, hey,
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is let me go to the bottom. ok. i used to come in. if it comes had noticed that will be no rebuff about it says he wasn't, even though i have never so much pain you meet people, then pause play and he was there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at them as a task and bronesi means freedom for move outs within isn't that the ultimate freedom these easily? you see this, see it is this optimal. see how much responsibility do you hear as a son right now in this situation that can lead to this? will you pick out the well being a father is a big thing. i will have to worry no matter what i did, it could never be enough. but that could be, this could use, the lender wants to play a 9. and even if like i have my own skin fan, i'll never be able to replace my father. it's going to be like a middle repay. what he's done for me will never be. i'm so cousin and i'm john booth, or would you guys let me try to explain this to the children that a little it's an evening. we pray and talk with each of the ladies who are doing
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without the humble hand that were alive well known to go the staff of every well. it's a i noticed the family sadness that they was to lose a loved one unit at the same time. they're happy and grateful that they have fulfilled his last wish that he's able to die here in. but on i see the or on the banks of the ganges touched cosy works late into the evening. the bodies are burned here around the clock.
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it's a job. the 33 year old never really wanted lots of another game before you tell, but i got to give me the trouble i dreamed of studying leading a better life. i was having to do this job here for august. i have no proper education now. i've had many problems. i tried different jobs, full time delay, got it, and nothing really worked out for me. i'm not spending towards the end. he does not want his 3 children to one day have to risk their own health and the smoke component courtesy where you near the window. when my children have completed their education by google as engineers, for instance, they have a completely different future ahead of the people. they can choose other professions who by john,
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hurt to see the people who have ended up here job the money to get those who are blessed, get better jobs nowadays. she didn't know. i didn't know lots. i knew they don't see the government in that he wants his children to leave the dream that was denied to him. a something i the i got a look at. my dream is for them to get an education. so i'm going to become better people who don't have good circle of friends if i can support their dreams with a lot of do something, i'll do everything i can to make it happen for the it's just after 5 am. it's on typically quiet in the by one, the
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kind of so i'm, i'm just on the managers passed away 2 minutes and i feel incredibly sorry for the family. let's have a low because at the same time the media, i believe the family is glad it's over. now, since for bias on the and that he will hopefully find salvation here. and veronica seems young losing that has. c c c the the,
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the present given the, i'm happy for him to push you to the everything for assembly. right? until the last moment to out of it. now his family must let go near which getting they brought him here to run a c. knowing this would be the last station of his life flashing and looking with the policy at the hold up and you'll be an investor. instead of going to give you a daddy getting a hunch that the family will gather everything that's needed for the burning of the body. then down carried the body from here to the banks that the guns use it till they're going to be decorated. and one thing burned got it up on the investment. scott, is that the
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everything has to move quickly. now the soul is to be freed from the dead body. while the men show to the physical weight, the women stay behind. they're not permitted to participate in the funeral ceremony . the start of the inside. now they're carrying him through the streets of around, etc, for everyone to see. not even a spaces covered to meet. it's very strange, of course, is for everyone else around us. it's completely normal. and so kind of like
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the relatives carried the deceased man's possessions with them. his belongings will be given away. it would bring bad luck to keep them in the family after his death. the arrival at the banks of the ganges. where the deceased is to be burned in the moment of grief, fixed rituals provide support. before the funeral,
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the eldest son of the family has his head shaved, a way to pay respect to his father. in the meantime, firewood for the funeral pyre needs to be organized. it costs about 100 euros, but the 400 kilos needed for the family places the relative onto the woods themselves. then finally, the fire is ignited. a man, the eldest son touches his father's go, 3 times, a symbolic gesture, the scarlet suppose to break open, releasing the soul each
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time for the farewells, the i think of the family. what must be going through their minds during the fire for them a 13 day period of morning now begins the
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i was invited honestly for 3 weeks it was the most intense shoot of my life. it was a period in which i felt sad, thoughtful, and at the same time, happy as the sound. these all could call me, but now when i arrived, i thought to myself, how could anyone want to die here in this crowded, noisy place where the smell of burned bodies is in the air. everywhere. now i've, at least to some extent developed an understanding of it to mention i've learned why people have a more positive approach to death and pulled this shoot as also change me personally that i've noticed that my fear of dealing with death has fallen away more and more in depth in a way is part of life. and i find that, oh, really beautiful and reassuring thought isn't switching,
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