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that is all for this out. stay with a saw adult film off to the right with some incredible images from a very nice see india is wholly city of this. i'm anthony. how, thanks for watching. for now though, it's good by for me and why the lovely colleague see instead of and stay with the the innovation green, the green revolution global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed. if the care is subscribe to those channels to subscribe to plan, it's a good news about on a c, india is holy city. the use of hindus believe whoever dies here will be
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saved so much for us staff as a 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 prototype in, 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 be inside
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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 i see death is approached very differently. it's known as the by one house of salvation. the debate is a priest year at the by one the he begins
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these 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 due god. yeah, but it will be at 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 to reverse. we accompany them by playing songs . i'm giving them basel die and water from the kanji. 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 under the is the name that up. how do i get people who come to us have 15 days to die? only those seeking, so vision should come here and sadness is that no one should stay here for free
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accommodation for months. no man, that's the only i am here is salvation. that is the most good. you have the most about anybody. but as i was looking at the 15 days to die, to me, that sounds almost stressful. like having a clock ticking for your final brands, but devout induce, 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,
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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 laugh mattresses on the floor. and what was your most hearted at their own? was the 18 but with the votes, that's the room only costs $0.20 a night. why is it so cheap? i'm used to pay a saturday or visit people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20 for the not too much electricity is used for the heard that the necessary and the low amount is also to remind them they shouldn't stay here with us. and definitely is it the room is really just meant for moving into salvation. so it, should it be so the heck it for me so, you know, kind of the, to me, it seems rather sparse on most around the
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contents in india for many it's the best thing to die right here. and it completely unfamiliar environment without any comfort, some for the future, i'll meet another person who's 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 longest 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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in the ganges can help wash away all sins. the building this is to are said to be cured with just one sip of the holy water. the run by the 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 rom rom is a god. probably stands for the monkey god, the monkey room. he is an especially powerful god the
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the run by the is 73 years old. he spent his whole life in. but honestly, the 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 his water? well, you are, the only was the 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 you 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 tended. once off the bus, i'd be coming for the 2nd day of the 2nd time off to the wedding each. he understood that 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 the bottom of your things like that. don't bother me until sure. i'll just keep growing body. we've got it's just a body. the soul has long since left the cord that made it out. after we die here, your bottle that snapped is a lifeless bounty. i much i have the money, but it isn't a surprisingly silver thought 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 in veranda. 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 charge limbs. the for this man, it's all part of everyday life. cremating corpses is patrick cozy,
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chilled high res job the data outside of the get a full size bed with 33 years old. now side of the 1st came here, age 13 and they cut the lead. today. burns may be 4 or 5 corpses the year upon me body i later became more, i washed a dad in the country. so you know, they look very different tier back then 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 a job, money at the job and they did not knowing what otherwise job monday and then they job related that it must be tough. the
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jacuzzi is a member of the dom cast, 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 . they're going to do see that i suppose it's all routine up. cool. 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 dead if you wouldn't being some, one of them would even talk to them in time and they may, we did. what do you the, the date, patrick 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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door. 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 doctor to cook myself and this glass here, best to throw it away. but it's hard for me to comprehend the conditions patrick cozy has to work under and i haven't mence respect for what he does, the
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i wonder if he would prefer another job nicholson to allow me that of course i would like to follow another profession to work here means a lot to me. my god gave me the opportunity of a new job and i wanna take it. otherwise i'll stay here around the touch cozy. he has 3 children. it's his wish for them not to have to one day work here at the money connie car got i'll meet him again in a few days. then he'll tell me, is 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, something to get out of here. we just received call from the owner saying that a person arrived last night from the admins. he wants to die right here inside on a seat. not enough to stay on the on the fact that 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 tipsy and often they thought him the, i have great respect for the chance to meet a dying person and to their family the some 20 family members are taking care of the elderly man. 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 them 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 it, i found a problem, a to kind of a use be happy to share with people who may be don't know much about our religion and show them how we approach this difficult situation problem. they can learn that they're sick, man is his father in law. his name is shree, low connect to body, he's 82 years old and can only breeze with the help of a ventilator. he can't see anymore.
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everything is doc this but some place it's hard for us baby with a month of he is really in a critical condition. countries that we can the whole 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 at your peace blessing is always with us because everybody, because i have my simple math, but we thank you for talking to us in this difficult time. i am here, you know, you came to us and the answer to that is really kind of you really kind of feel like the so much the,
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the service is so far. this has been for me the most extreme situation. we have sound he's a mean it's in the this family, naturally concerned for a family member who is about to die has done the less welcoming us into their circle out of the bias shabby on dealings thoughts in the indian kind of wants to show us how their culture works and how they deal with death is a quote to have someone send me an amazing with them. told indian the
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i ask one of his sons tundra to body. why it was important enough for the whole a family to travel to bad. honestly. young who were you to take you to live with daddy guides of somebody except today when my father ties i them i want to install a happy you know, i want to have a family to be that jammed up until now he's been stuck in the attendance cycle every but the pacific dining here in toronto. so you should find me frank, that's totally cool. we die. 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 root, the looks of it as soon as i was caught on it's on. it's got them on. i definitely do see on my s death is
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a celebration for us. it's one of the most components of rituals like about a marriage. we celebrate that is at least so much behind you, so much pain. taking him to is and you got it, 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 luck on me as a human can you achieve salvation? the sun, the deep brought up the sun just nope. betterments. assuming you have the sort of 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 a 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 family and as i go to ask him the next question, it's suddenly goes dark. and it's got to stay among his kind of slaves, 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 is 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 the seller rum, yadda, whose family is lived in. but on a see for 7 generations the
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g was so close to me, monday, kindly. ca, gods. and what kind of people do you need? do you mean sad people? do you mean people that i have here that they are relates has passed away here in about and i see what kind of impressions you get from the people here. there's one god forbid of ideas and many people who have just lost a loved one. come to my 2 shots as though it's often the case of the saddle. cried peter. the little comment of yeah, so if we cut them up, we tied, you might have some struggle with losing their fault them of our life and let us know how the family members are behind my love. it just doesn't matter. they, how can you come for these people? do you would try to give them some comfort to your food? 3, a t through talking. how do you do it? yeah, but us out on zillow, whatever they put it, i remember the people tell me about their problems. i explained to them that god
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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. that can live happily in peace in mind. everyone has lost someone they loved at some point. oh yeah, no one has a multiple. yes. everyone has to go some by separate point. okay. might i add a new local yeah. on 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 the 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 the best to make friends with that is was only one of those valuable. you know, the
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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. each day, her mother paints her up as the he knew the chief, the, her family,
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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 i didn't really came him mainly because of my heart condition. to earn 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. for example, the,
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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 there. naples, 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. the
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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 it will attach. so just gives me $0.50, but don't have that much of that. and just give it to me now for the the stuff that the yeah. the golf show. i think that's enough. no, i'm not taking that. take this $0.20. yeah. this over to
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the, to the a 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 waco. some people even call me back or last long. i always tell them i'm not the bigger on the day are 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. i'm only scared at the thought that my mother might die. i don't want my mother to dine now.
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on human, the ok to pay that be great. 100 got a guy that's life. it shows that young people come here when the doctor says that there's nothing more that can do well. no sign wishes to come to go to relax to miss were thinking about one because i don't know, maybe i never dies here in toronto. see, can consider themselves lucky. i've been said go 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 we've done design a focus on monday. have you done? no, they came with the whole family, a self 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, get me a 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 that those can
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you avoid them? i never say no. i am here. everyone is offered a roof over there. had to be somewhere 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 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 as a comes, had noticed that there will be no rebuff about it cuz he wasn't, even though there was so much pain. you meet people, then pause play upon and he was, there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at them as a task and brought to see millions 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 yet, but 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, 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 retired. well, 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 other on the boogie issue out of them without the hunger. hannah were alive well
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known to go through staff every well it's a. c i noticed the family sadness that they will soon 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 so 33 year old and never really wanted lots of another game before you tell, but i got to give me a good problem. i dream of studying leading a better life. i was having to do this job here for august. i have no proper education. i've had many problems. i tried different jobs, the 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 margaret. he said, well, 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, it hurts to see the people who have ended up here,
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don't be money. it means that 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. something the lot are you 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 friends if i can support their dreams with a lot of do something, i'll do everything i can to make it happen for lots and lots of rumpled and it's just after 5 am. it's on typically quiet in the by one, the
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scientists amongst on demand just passed away 2 minutes and i feel incredibly sorry for the family i to low because at the same time the media, i believe the family is glad it's over. now since for bias on death and that he will hopefully find salvation here in for on i see you're losing that has. c the
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history present, given the unhappy for him to push you to the everything for assembly. right? until the last moment to out of i now his family must let go with getting they brought him here to for honestly knowing this would be the last station of his life flashing and looking with the policy at the hold up. and then you'll be an investor instead of going to give you a daddy getting a hunch that the family will go through. everything that's needed for the burning of the body. then down carried the body from here to the banks that the guns use of the killed they're going to be decorated and one thing burned. got it. as on the investment side of the 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 me, it's very strange, of course, for everyone else around us, it's completely normal. and so tyler, my relatives
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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. the man 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 for the 400 kilos needed the family places the relative onto the woods themselves. then finally, the fire is ignited. 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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i was input on a c 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 shadow 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 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
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