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tv   Varanasi  Deutsche Welle  November 1, 2024 2:15am-3:01am CET

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the right, that's all for now. stay with the definitely the for the film, the indian thing continues from the festival of lights. this one is called barnowski. india is wholly city of dix. i mean it's anyhow, thanks for watching noise coming up and 45. the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with you production? here's a hands on the really indeed watch now on youtube. the on on i see india is holy city.
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the use of hindus believe whoever dies here will be saved so much for us as a celebration here i meet people who make a living from dying lots of another game before you. i'm 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've never really afraid the and i learned that dying doesn't have to be a terrible thing. the question should make that
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the, the a few years ago i lost my mother. it took me quite some time to process or death. i was offering extremely sad. it said that here in this hospice in but honestly, death is approached very differently. it's known as the buy one house of salvation. the only country to be 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 and are honestly, they can escape the cycle of return and reverse. we accompany them by playing songs . i'm giving them basel die and water from the countries so on. if i make an image, i can you explain to me again, the main route woods of multi by on and why you have these woods? and i mean, is the new ended up? how do i get for people who come to us have 15 days to die? that only those seeking salivation should come here,
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so no one should stay here for free accommodation. for months, no minutes the only i am here is salvation that he's actually on a most security at the most about anybody by some of the 15 days to die. to me that sounds almost stressful. like having a clock ticking for your final brents. 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. you don't have the cup. yes, exactly. this is that we have 2 beds from top to bottom,
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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 started at their own was about the 18, but with the votes, that's the room only costs $0.20 a night. why is it so cheap? on this side of the question you yet are missing. people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20, so that's not too much electricity is used to be 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, to me it seems rather sparse, almost stereo on thoughts. and yet
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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 out 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 god. a
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run 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, the water totally was the. what do you like? the studies have shown how polluted the ganges can be in the around the water is so toxic that fish can barely survive here though, the science seems to play or less important role than face the i'm, you know, got
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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, the 2nd time off to the wedding. and the 3rd time after dan as the gates, the jess is ever present on the ganges. sometimes even with corpses floating in the water, the should i get a good to me? i get trip run out, but i do problems and things like that doesn't bother me until sure. 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. after we die here, your bottle that snapped is a lifeless phone to you. i money, i get the money, but it isn't surprisingly silver thorn. for me, i find it hard to separate the body from the essence of the deceased.
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i visit the place where most bodies are cremated. info around to see the money kind of got the smoke, the smell, and what i see over whelmed 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 patrick cozy,
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chilled harvey's job. the . the you put by the 33 years old now side when we 1st came here, age 13, they cut the lead type orange may be 4 or 5 corpses a year upon me. while i later it became more to me. i washed a dad in the country so you know the look very different here, but then the who not one of the simple that they're not. but i basically work all the time that the phone cut in. if i don't do the job, who will let me take care of everything, points of job money at the job and they did not knowing what otherwise job money and then they job related that it must be tough. the
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jacuzzi is a member of the dom test, one of the lowest in indian society, the earns 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 dentist. you wouldn't being some, one of them would even talk to them in town 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 deceased are 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 mence respect for what he does, the
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so i wonder if you would prefer another job. nicholson to allow me that will of course we'd like to follow another profession to work here means a lot to me though my god gave me the opportunity of a new job and i would take it otherwise i'll stay here around the touch 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, somebody i get out of here, we just received a call from the owner saying that a person arrived last night from the admins. he wants to die right here in foot. 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 often they thought him the, i have great respect for the chance to meet a dying person and their family, the some 20 family members are taking care of the elderly man. and i'm suddenly and
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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'm a, i found a problem and told me 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 they're 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. he can't see anymore.
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everything is doc my brother, this lesson plans. it's hard for us very with the he is really in a critical condition, congress that we can pull family quote, are you happy that yours? you invite? honestly not see me here. not a very happy little, very, very happy to be called to do. his 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 the so much the,
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the the, the service. yeah. so far this has been for me the most extreme situation. we have sound he's a mean, it's been the this family, naturally concerned for a family member who's about to die has done the less welcoming us into their circle out of the bias shabby on dealings thoughts in m. b a and e and kind of wants to show us how their culture works and how they deal with death. give the 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 take your life 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 inside delivery. but you see dining here in toronto, so you should finally break that. somebody cool. the guy put a not door to us. you get you got to look to you 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 route to sell it to know. so i was gonna make sense. got them on how to produce m. i s that is a celebration for us. it's one of the most can culture of rituals like the last
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a marriage. we celebrate that. these are leave so much behind you, so much pain. and he can help me do is i'm got a talk about that being 8400000 different life forms to be on my, on the phone as a human is to be blessed by going to not the luck only as a human can you achieve salvation to be done with the product, the sun just hope that i'm in the same model that if you missed the chart because you have to go through the entire cycle again and then i'll probably do little bit . i don't know. when did you decide that you would come here to about enough? see, and how did you organize that? the whole assembly and as i go to ask him the next question, it suddenly goes dark. you've 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 stopped in stands
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for the 1st time, the room grows restless. it seems as if death has become more real, more tangible for the family. the i suspect the family would prefer to be alone for the time being on the banks of the ganges. i need to sell the rum yard off whose family is lived in. but on a see for 7 generations the,
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the g was so close to him, money kind of guy got what kind of people do you need to? do you mean sad people? do you mean people that i have here that they are relates has passed away here in about? i'm not see what kind of impression do you get from the people here. there's one going to cover the body. i've seen many people who have just lost a loved one, come to my 2 shots and as though it's often the case of the saddle, cry key that the wrote that a little comment of yeah. so if we cut them up, we thought you might have some struggle with losing their fault them of a life might of some know how the family members of and my love is just doesn't matter. they, how can you come for these people? do you would try to give them some comfort to your food through your teeth, through talking? how do you do it? yeah, but us out there or not. you know, whatever the problem was, the people tell me about the problems. i explained to them with the gold has given
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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 got not gonna tell them. there's no reason to cry. yeah. that can live happily and in peace is in my, everyone is love someone we love to some point. oh yeah, no one. is there multiple? yes. everyone has to go some di, separate for an appointment. i never really agree. i any semi i that's 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. if i told you that no, i'm not afraid of death. there's no reason to worry. i'll be afraid, moscow, one day i will try to draw the embrace that's best to make friends, right? that is what's on, even on those i level you know, with the, the, the,
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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 many can make a living. here. the job is 9 years old. each day, her mother being threw up as the he knew the chief, the family,
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including a 5 year old brother has been homeless for some time. the, the mazda of the haile, you know, kind of what i thought i didn't have a husband. that's why we live here on the river bank. we came him mainly because of my heart condition when i gave you guys to n, at least a little money off the line. your call, i guess we'd 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? not the whole. the lot of people suggested it to me. they told me to have no husband and you need to how to operate. and basically your daughter could walk around us chiva, a desktop, i need about 500 or 600 yours for the operation of so that'd be so we're trying to get the money this way. for example, drive the
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a man con job 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. does she understand what she's doing? their life is. i know she never complains. she does a lot for me, yet. she always tells me i live only if you live. that's why she's collecting money from my operation. the
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every afternoon follows the same routine. the after applying makeup congo mean goes with the tourist hoping to bring home as much money as possible by send me money that will attach. so just give me $0.50 and i don't have that much. and i just. * give it to me now for the the stuff that sort of the, the call show thing. pulled up. oh, that's enough. no, i'm not taking that. take this $0.20. yeah. this over to the,
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the, to the congo has collected just under for yours a 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 for my mother in waco . some 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? let them says that i'm going that actually i'm never afraid of what i'm only scared at the thought that my mother might die. i don't want my mother to 90 mile
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selection yet the i admire college all strings 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 alongside them. the family of 20 also needs to be taken care of the
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the on the on the ok, the be great. honda got a guy that that's life is. so is the young people come here when the doctor so, so there's nothing more that can do well. no final wishes to come to god who likes to me. so thank you my one concern to me that whoever dies here in for honestly, can consider themselves lucky. i've been, instead of the children of course, don't understand all this. yeah. but they have nobody don't know what's happening here. my. oh yeah, here with people with john vine, a to get some money. i have, you know, they came with the whole family is pretty by to me. so i can as many people come as they like, i'm up here to say comes the other thing. i mean, while at least 2 people should accompany the sick person available, in this case, it's 15220140. sometimes 10 or 15 family members come that that those can you avoid
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them? i never say no. i am here. everyone is offered a roof over there had to be somebody else with in 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 family sees may lead the good for the relative you in future to do, hey, is let me go to the bottom. ok. i used to have
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a come said no. so that will be no re bus somebody to leave us. and even though i have never so much pain, you meet people st. paul, fly up on on me was that there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at the tasks and drama. see millions freedom from all that to the nissan that the ultimate freedom diseases a you see this is this optimal. see here, how much responsibility do you hear as a son right now in this situation that can lead to this a year. it's also 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 even though i could be a 9. 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 retired. well, he's done for me, will never be. i'm so causing it. hum chombo through to us and we try to explain this to the children that a little it's an evening. we pray and talk with each of a legal issue, i don't, but that's the other hand that were alive well known
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to call the staff a every well it's a. c i noticed the family sadness that they was to lose a loved one year at the same time. they're happy and grateful that they are fulfilled his last wish that he's able to die here, invalid. and i see the on the banks of the ganges, touched cozy works late into the evening. bodies are burned here around the clock. it's
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a john the thirty's, 3 year old, and never really wanted the lot of another game before you tell. but i got a good man, i the problem i dream of studying, leading a better life. i was having to do this job here because i have no proper education . and i've had many problems. i tried different stones you 4 times and they got 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 more lucrative or the engineer window. when my children have completed their education by year, again, people as engineers, for instance, they have a completely different future ahead of somebody to pick and choose other professions. who by john, hurts to see the people who ended up here don't be money. it means that only those
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who are blessed get better jobs nowadays. she didn't know. i didn't know lots. i knew they don't see the jump in his eyes. he wants his children to leave the dream that was denied to him. a something that is a lot more look at my dream is for them to get an education, some go to become better people who don't have good circle of friends if that can support their dreams, let them out or do something. i'll do everything i can to make it happen for the the, it's just after 5 am it's, i'm typically quiet in the by one to
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the scientists amongst all the man just passed away. 2 minutes and i feel incredibly sorry for the family. like to know 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 you're losing that has. c c c the
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present, given the happy for him to push you to the everything for assembly. right. until the last moment to out of i now his family must like go there with getting they brought him here to for honestly knowing this would be the last station of his life flashing them with the policy at the hold up. and i know via an investment is kind of integrated, daddy getting onto the family will gather everything that's needed for the burning of the body. then don't carry the body from here to the banks that the guns use it to. they're going to be decorated with a month and burned. got it as an on him that's. that's got a good thing. the . everything has to move quickly. now,
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as the soul is to be freed from the dead body, while the men showed with the physical weight, the women stay behind. they are not permitted to participate in the funeral ceremony. the head start of the inside and now they're carrying him through the streets of around and see for everyone to see not even a spaces covered. to me, it's very strange, of course, for everyone else around us. it's completely normal. and sometimes their
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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 year owes for the $400.00 kilos needed the family places the relative onto the wood themselves. then finally, the fire is ignited. the eldest son touches his father's go 3 times, a symbolic gesture. the scarlet supposed to break open, releasing the soul each
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time for the farewell, the, the, 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 in the see 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 is all i 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 just some extent developed an understanding of it. to mention, i've learned why people have a more positive approach to death and for 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 government, in depth, in a way is part of life and i find that, oh, really beautiful and reassuring thought isn't switching, i'm vaguely certain on all the waiting them to down the
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