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but on i see india is holy city. 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 dreamed of studying. i'm leading a better life. it's not having to do this job for those sites 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,
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the question should make sense that 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 on i see death is approached very differently. it's known as the by one house of salvation. the probably going to be is a priest you 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. wiley 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 tag, and i guess 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 button and why you have these woods? and i mean, is the name that i've, how do i get to people who come to was,
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have 15 days to die? ended up that only those seeking salivation should come here so that no one should stay here for free accommodation, or for months, no minutes. the only i am here is salvation that he's actually on a most. can you help him much 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, talk to 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, which means that are missing. people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20 so that 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 that the room is really just meant for moving into salvation. it, should it be so the heck it for me so, you know, kind of the
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to me it seems rather sparse, almost there on the, on tops and yet 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 the principal deities she is said to reside the india as longest river also flows through here the ganges. for many hindus,
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it's the physical manifestation of the goddess gund. it's believed that the eating 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 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 rom rom is a god. body stands for the monkey guard the monkey room. he isn't especially ellis
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. oh, god, uh 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. you sometimes drink the water as well. me. the thought, oh, yes, of course. yes, dick know, even now this one department, now he's drinking the water. is the water divided under his water? well, you are the only one who 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
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i'm you know, got a person must have based in the ganges at least 3 times, like the tended. once off the bus, i'll be coming for the 2nd day of the 2nd time off to the wedding each and i'm just tired of to damage the dates. the jess is ever present on the ganges sometimes even with corpses floating in the water, the would you like? are they good to me? i don't know, but i remember all of your things like that doesn'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 point, the cord that made it though, after we die, a bottle that snapped is unlikely. auntie, i much, i have the money, but it isn't a 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 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, or charge limbs the for this man, it's all part of everyday life. of 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. so i looked at the 1st came here age 13, and they cut the lead. today. burns may be 4 or 5 corpses a year upon me, a lot of that nature became more of them. they washed a dad in the country. so you know, they look very different tier back then, you know who not the simple net correct. they're not, but basically work all the time and the phone cut in. if i don't do the job, who will let me take care of everything points a job, money or the job and they did die 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 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 that there to see 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 on 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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door here he looks for valuables. sometimes he gets lucky as he has now finding a chain. the dog in the murky, polluted water. you can barely see where he is stepping. the i cut myself with 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 though my god gave me the opportunity of a new job around that. i'm gonna take it otherwise i'll stay here around touch because 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 in front, on the seat, 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 tipsy and often they thought him the, i have great respect for the chance to meet a dying person and their family. the
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some 20 family members are taking care of the elderly man. i'm suddenly uncertain 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 may, 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 their 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 someplace utah and for us the he is really in a critical condition. congress of the 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 to do. his blessing is always with us because everybody, because i might have to ask, but we thank you for talking to us in this difficult time. i am here, you know, you came to us and the uncertainty 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 media to fan the this family naturally concerned for a family member who is about to die has done the less welcoming us into their circle. how to buy a strategy on deals, 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 that's important. in the
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i ask one of the 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 guy? somebody except the day 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 attending a cycle. every but the pacific dining here in toronto. you should find me frank, that's totally cool. the guy put a not me to ask you to kind of 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 root, the looks of it as soon as i was caught on it's on. it's got them on. i definitely
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do see 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 or leave so much behind you. so much pain. making him do isn't god we talk about let being 8400000 different life forms to be on my own. as a human is to be blessed by golf. children off the left only 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 little with that i don't, but not in that you. when did you decide that 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's suddenly goes dark. manadis is got to stay among his kind of slaves, a power outage here, which of course is terrible because the ventilator for his father has now stopped
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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 on the banks of the ganges. i need the seller, ron miasca, whose families lived in. but on a see for 7 generations the
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g was so close to me, monday. kind of got 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 an 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. cried peter. the little comment of yeah, so if we cut them up, we tied, you might have some struggle with losing their father them of otherwise let us know how the family members of in 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 through your teeth, through talking? how do you do it? yeah, but us out on zillow, whatever they put it,
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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 money, everyone has lost someone they loved at some point. oh yeah, no one has a multiple. yes. everyone has to go some di, 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 death. 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 was suddenly one of those valuable 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. each day, her mother paints her up as the he knew the chief,
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the, her 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. does she understand what she's doing there? no, no. 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 by send me money. and i will suggest, so just give me $0.50, but don't have that much of that. and just give it to me now for the the stuff that the, the yeah, the golf show. i think that's enough. i know i'm not taking that take this $0.20 over to
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the to the congo 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? what sounds does that sound good? that actually i'm never afraid. i'm only scared at the thought that my mother might
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die. i don't want my mother to dine mouse selection yet. the admire cottrell 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 the along side them. the family of 20 also needs to be taken care of the
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on human, the ok to pay that be great. honda got a guy that's life, it shows that 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 this, we're thinking about one cuz i don't know, maybe i never die is here in for honestly, can consider themselves lucky. i've been said go to the children of course, don't understand all this. yeah. but to have that i don't know what's happening here and i 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 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, get me a while at least 2 people should have company and the sick person available. in this case, it's 15220140,
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sometimes 10 or 15 family members come that 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 may lead the good for the relative drew up in future to do, hey,
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is let me go to the bottom. ok. i used to come if it comes, had noticed that will be no rebuff about it cuz he wasn't, even though i there was so much pain. you meet people then paul flag and he was us . there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at them as a task and brought to see millions freedom for move outs with in the sense 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 about something else i did. it could never be enough. but that could be, this could use, the lender wants to play a 9. and even if i gave my own skin for him, 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,
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only will be so out of them without the hunger. hannah were alive well known to go the staff of every well it's a. c i noticed the family sadness that they was to lose a loved one. you had 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 on the banks of the ganges, touched cosy, works late into the evening. the bodies are burned here around the clock. it's
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a job. the 33 year old never really wanted lots of another game before you account, 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, so 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
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professions who by john, it hurts to see the people who have ended up here. don't be money get mentality if those who are blessed get better jobs nowadays. she didn't know. i didn't know lots . i knew that obviously the don't mean that he wants his children to leave the dream that was denied to him. a something either i can 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 and it's just after 5 am. it's on typically quiet in the by one, the
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scientists amongst all the man just passed away 2 minutes and i feel incredibly sorry for the family. let's have a clo 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 in for on i see you're losing that has. c c the
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history present, given the unhappy for him to push you to do 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 integrated 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. when i go to the, 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 tired of 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, but 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 invalid 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 these and these are often called him. 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 depth in a way is part of life. and i find that a really beautiful and reassuring thought isn't switching,
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