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the use of hindus believe whoever dies here will be 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'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 the sounds. i'm never really afraid the and i learned that dying doesn't have to be a terrible thing. the question should make that at

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 the seat depth is approached very differently. it's known as the by one house of salvation. the only country to be is a priest you at the by one begins

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. 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 that 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? and observe that only those seeking salivation should come here or sadness?

is that no one should stay here for free accommodation for months? no man, that's the only i'm here is salvation that he's actually on a and most can you help him much about anybody by some of 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. okay, so this is the room. you don't have the cup. yes, exactly. this is that we have 2 beds, 2,

but 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 prompted 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? i visited the side of the question that are missing. people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20, so that's not too much electricity is used to the her to 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 that the heck there for me. so, you know, kind of the, to me it seems rather sparse, almost stare i on 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 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

in the ganges 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 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 out 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 guard the monkey room. he is an especially powerful god

the somebody 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 under his water? well, you are totally was the what do you like the studies have shown how polluted again juice 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 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 time, the 2nd time off to the wedding. it's just the time after dad has the gates, the jess is ever present on the ganges sometimes even with corpses floating in the water, the kid i gotta get to the terminal now, but i do bottle and 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 it towards the middle. go. after we die here, your bottle that snapped is a life play phone tag. i money, i get 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. a

visit to a 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 charge limbs. the for this man, it's all part of everyday life. of cremating corpses is patrick cozy,

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 today. burns may be 4 or 5 corpses a year upon me body i later became more. i washed a dad in the country. so you know, they looked very different tier. but then when i went to the sampling 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 literally take care of everything points a job, money at the job. and they did that knowing what otherwise job monday and then they job related that it must be tough. the

a large cosy is a member of the dom 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 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 dentist. you 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 on to be buried with dignity. during breaks. he gets into the ganges where the ashes of the distinct star scattered the

here he looks for valuables. sometimes he gets lucky as he has now finding a chain 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 patrick cozy has to work under. and i haven't mence respect for what he does, the

of the, 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. my god gave me the opportunity of a new job and i would take it. otherwise, i'll stay here and see if i'm in 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

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 a 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 inside. 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 tempted to make love 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 elder,

the man i'm suddenly uncertain 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, a total 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. lo cannot you body he's 82 years old and can only breeze with the help of a ventilator. he can't see anymore.

everything is doc. my brother, this lesson plans. it's hard for us baby with the he is really in a critical condition. countries that are leaking coal family quote, are you happy that you are human, but honestly not see me here. not a very happy look. 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 this so much the,

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 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 m. b a and e and kind of wants to show us how their culture works and how they deal with death. getting a quote to have someone send me an amazing that them told indian the

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 you to live with died you guys have to be excited today. when my father ties, i can, 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 finally break that . sorry, cool. the guy put a not me to ask you to go to, to look to you when my mother was about to die of so it's 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 to not. so it's kind of make sense. got them on how to produce m. i s that is a celebration for us. it's one of the most components of rituals like for marriage

. we celebrate that is or leave so much behind you. so much pain. making him do is indicate that we talk about let being 8400000 different life forms to be on my, on the phone as a human is to be blessed by going to not deluxe only as a human. can you a chief salvation to come with the sun, the deep brought up the sun. just know better man. what do you see? any of the sort of the must have modeled 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, they're not mutual. when did you decide that you would come here to about an see and how did you organize that? the whole family. and as i go to ask him the next question, it suddenly goes dark. uh, he's got to stay among his got his nose, a power outage here, which of course is terrible because the ventilator for his father has now 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 on the banks of the ganges. i need to sell a ron miasca whose family is lived in. but on a see for 7 generations the

but i'm g was so close to me, money kind of guy got and what kind of people do you mean? do you mean sad people? do you mean people that i happy it that they are relates have 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 already 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. otherwise might have some 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? 3, a t through talking. how do you do it? yeah, put us out on zillow. whatever they put avalon was the people tell me about the

problems. i explained to them. the gold 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. yeah. everyone has to go some to a separate point. okay. might i add a new local yeah, on a semi i got the 9 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 muttered, i yeah, it's always gotten that they're not. 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 i labeled, you know, 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 judge is 9 years old. each day her mother paints her up as the can do, the chief, the family,

including a 5 year old brother has been homeless for some time. the mazda of the haile, you know, kinda what i mean. i don'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, 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 not to hold the. a lot of people suggested it to me, you know, they told me to have no husband. and you need to how to operation by simply your daughter could walk around us. chiva does not need about 500 or 600 yours for the operation up. so that the, so we're trying to get the money this way. 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. so in the year, what does your daughter say? she seems like a happy child. does 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 less. that's why she's collecting money from my operation. the

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. i send me money. it will attach but just gives me $0.50 remaining but on top of that much it just. * give it to me, now let me ask for the the stuff that the yeah, the golf show, i think that's enough. i know i'm not taking that. take this $0.20. yeah. this over to

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 is i'm only doing it from my mother, why from people even call me back or last long? i always tell them i'm not the better 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 dine malfunction

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 long side, then the family of 20 also needs to be taken care of the

on you in the okay, the be great. honda got a guy that's life. this was the young people come here when the doctor says that there's nothing more they can do well, no sign wishes to come to god who likes to me. so thank you my one considering that whoever dies here in toronto see, can consider themselves lucky. i've been outside of georgia the children of course, don't understand all of this. yeah. but they have to they don't know what's happening here. a good bye. oh yeah, honey, i would say go with john vine a. so get him on a have you know, that came with the whole family is up study by to me. so i can as many people come as they like, i'm ok to say it comes with the other thing. i mean, while at least 2 people should a company in the sick person available, in this case, it's 15220140. 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 somebody else with in iowa. and most people go to the dining 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 fugette to do, hey, is let me go to the bottom. ok. i used to come as it comes here and noticed that

there 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 there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at another attack and brought to see millions freedom from over to the nissan that the ultimate freedom diseases a 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. so you put that so well being a father is a big thing. i will have to worry about the whole idea that could never be enough. but that can be, this can use, the lender wants to play a 9. and even if i gave my own skin fan, i'll never be able to replace my father. it's gonna be like a middle repay. what he's done to me will never be. i'm so causing it. hum chombo, 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 issue out of them, but that's the reliable,

not to go the staff a every well, it's the 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

a job the 33 year old and 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 and i have no proper education. and i've had many problems. i've tried different jobs 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 component courtesy where you near the window when my children have completed their education bargain, people essential years for instance, they have a completely different future ahead of the people pick and choose other professions . who by john it hurts to see the people who have ended up here. don't be money. it

means only 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 that is a lot. while i 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. so i'm typically quiet in the by one, the

scientists amongst all the managers 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 veronica seems you're losing that has. c c c c the

isn't being present given the cannot be 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, which getting they brought him here to for honestly knowing this would be the last station of his life by seeing them looking with the cause here, the hold up and then you'll be an investor instead of them, they give you a daddy getting a hunch that the family will gather everything that's needed for the burning of the body. daniel, then down carry the body from here to the banks that the guns you stick to. they're going to be decorated with a month and burned. got it as a, on the investment side of the, the . 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 se 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

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,

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 woods themselves. then finally, the fire is ignited. 2 the eldest son touches his father's go 3 times, a symbolic gesture, the scarlet suppose to break open, releasing the soul each

time for the farewells, the think of the family. what must be going through their minds during the fire for them a 13 day period of morning now begins of the the

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 sound is often called him, but not when i arrived i thought to myself, how could anyone want to die here in this crowded, noisy place with the smell of burned bodies in the air everywhere when get time. now i've at least just some extent developed an understanding of it to 2 minutes. 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. a gland. i find that oh, really beautiful and reassuring sergeant switching i'm vaguely shown on the off the waiting ended on the

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