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there's a service done this kj matthews and ally. thank you so much. thank and i set you up today. it's more world news at the top of the out. a good the the the is, it is supple is having to be more peaceful than ever on the move world wide. and such are based on life for the types of in cardboard that's on the left side. of the image and find out about bailey story. info, migraines. the about 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 staff as a celebration. here i meet people who make a living from dying lots of another young people you dreamed of studying and leading a better life. it's not having to do this job product sites in, but honestly i'm pushed to my limits the but i also meet people with incredible strength. i'm never really afraid the and i learned that dying doesn't have to be a terrible thing. the problem should make peace. that
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the or 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 about 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 hindu. god. yeah, but the people who come to us are seeking salvation. guests believe that if they die in toronto, see 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 around it to make an image that can you explain to me, again, the main route woods of multi bought on and why you have these was funded? i mean, is the new ended up? how do i get to 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 man, that's the only i am here. so ations that he's actually on a most good you had 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 who room has met the car? yes, exactly. this is that we have 2 beds and talked to one for the person seeking salvation
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and one for the person accompanying them. sometimes more family members come up now, then we land mattresses on the floor and what was your most hearted at their own? what say about that? he didn't but with the votes, that's the room on the costs $0.20 a night. why is it so cheap? i'm used to pay a saturday, nissan, or miss repair to the new job. people basically stay here for free. we only charge $0.20, so that's not too much electricity is used for the her to 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 sufficient or not. it, should it be so going back to the other factor for me. so, you know, kind of the, to me, it seems rather sparse, almost stereo,
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the on tots. and yet for me, me, 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 die and thought, 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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and again, cheese 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 i'm bobby 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, hi there. very well and uh huh. how come i'm carol? what's your name? my name is ron bonnie: that and i'm only oliver. ron rom is a god. body stands for the monkey. god, the monkey room, he is an especially powerful god. the run by the is 73 years old.
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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 it. huh . yes. of course. yes, dick. nope. even now this one department. now he's drinking the water. is the water divided under his water? what do you watch? holy water, or do you like the studies have shown how polluted the ganges can be in around us. the water is so toxic that fish can barely survive. here though, the science seems to play a less important role than face the
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odd need to get 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. the 2nd time off to the wedding, i'm just tired of to 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 the bottle and 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 it towards the cord that made it though. after we die here, your bottle that snapped is unlikely. auntie. i must get the money, but it isn't a surprisingly sober 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 my most bodies, our cremated environment. see the money kind of car got the smoke, the smell, and what i see over whelmed. 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. cremating corpses is patrick cozy,
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chilled, high res job. the data outside of them was i get a new put but my 33 years old now side when we 1st came here aged 13, they cut the lead today. parents may be 4 or 5 courses a year upon me. a lot of that later it became more of them. they washed a dad in the country. so you know, they look very different tier back then. you know who the simple net correct. they're never die. 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? 20 job money at the job and they did die 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 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 still treat the data. see wouldn't being some, one of them would even talk to them in time and they maybe did. what do the, the date match cosy explains to me or to be buried with dignity during breaks and gets into the ganges where the ashes of the distinct star scattered the
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here he looks for valuables. sometimes he gets lucky as he has now finding a chain 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. the middle level, of course i would like to follow another profession to work here means a lot to me so much. god gave me the opportunity of a new job. i'm gonna take it otherwise i'll stay here around. the hutch cozy has 3 children. it's his wish for them not to have to one day work here at the money kind of 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 a call from the owner saying that a person arrived last night from the admins. he wants to die right here in foot on a seat, not enough to stab the deadline society. 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 it often makes of 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
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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? uh, i may, i found a problem, a total of a use be happy to share with people who may be don't know, much about 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 breeds with the help of a ventilator. he can't see anymore.
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everything is doc this but someplace it's hard for us that even with the he is really in a critical condition. congress that we can pull family quote, are you happy that years you and but honestly not see me here. none of who are very happy. little very, very happy because he's 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 uncertainty that is really kind of you really kind of feel like this so much the,
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the, the, the service is so far. this has been for me the most extreme situation. we have found the, he's the media and 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 the deal with death getting a quote to have someone send me an amazing that's important. in the
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i ask one of the sons set tundra to body, why it was important enough for the whole family to travel to about honestly young, who were you to take you to a live with died. you guys have somebody 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 the job. and so 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. we die. put a not me do it. so you get you got to look to 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 route to sell it to not so it's kind of make sense. government and up. it is the only yes, that is a celebration for us. it's one of the most components of rituals like of us and
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marriage. we celebrate that. these are least so much behind you, so much pain. and he can him, do is indicate that they talk about that being 8400000 different life forms to be on my, on the phone as a human has to be blessed by god going off the lot only as a human. can you a chief salvation the government the brought up the subject to better man. what is your name? you know, must have modeled that if you missed the chart because you have to go through the entire cycle again. now that i'll probably do that to join us a little bit, i know they're not mature. when did you decide that he 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. it's got to stay among his kind of stairs, a power outage here, which of course is terrible because the ventilator for his father has now stopped in stands for the
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1st time the room grows restless. it seems as if death is become more real, more tangible for the family, the suspect, the family would prefer to be alone for the time being on the banks of the ganges i need to sell, or ron miasca, whose families lived in. but honestly, for 7 generations the
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g was so close to me, money kind of car gods. and what kind of people do you need? do you mean sad people? do you mean people that i happy it that they are relates has passed away here in about and i see what kind of impression do you get from the people here. there's one going to cover the body. i've seen many people who have just lost a loved one, come to my 2 shots and it's often the case of the saddle crying at the roof and i'm not a little calmer of. yeah. so if we cut them up, we tied, you might have some struggle with losing their fault on them of oh, i might have saw no other family members who have 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 out, remember the people tell me about the problems?
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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. no, i tell them there's no reason to cry. yeah. they can live happily and in peace isn't what everyone has lost someone they loved at some point. oh yeah, that one. is it multiple? yeah. everyone has to go some the a separate point. okay. might i add a new local yeah. on a 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 in my telling me that they're not, 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. it's best to make friends with that as well as on, even on those i label. you know, the
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evenings and, 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. the each day her mother being threw up as they can do the chief, the family,
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including a 5 year old brother has been homeless for some time. the mazda of the haile, you know, kind of what i mean, the 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 to earn at least a little money. i'll combine your car. 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 to hold the the lots of people suggested it to me. i know they told me to have no husband and you need to how to operation. basically, 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,
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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 once i'm on a bundle of what does your daughter say? she seems like a happy child. does she sometimes complain that she understand what she's doing there? and i know she never complains if it was going to, 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. my send me money. it will attach to the gives me $0.50 and i don't have that much, you know, give it to me now. wish for the the stuff that the yeah. the golf show thing will double. that's enough. no, i'm not taking that. take this $0.20. yeah. this over to the,
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to the condo has collected just under for yours and know for a little food for her family, but not enough to save for the operation the best. i don't feel good about what i'm doing. i'm only doing it for my mother in white plum. 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 of what i'm only scared at the thought that my mother might die. i don't want my mother today,
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miles selection yet the i admired casual strength and i find it terrible that this 9 year old has to deal with death. so early in life, the yes and life in the by one there, close neighbors. a man dies and right next to him, children play the the alongside them. the family of 20 also needs to be taken care of the
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on you and the ok. the be great. honda got a guy that's life is who is the young people come here when the doctor says so there's nothing more that can do well. no final wishes to come to god and relax to me as well. thank you. my one concern that whoever dies here in toronto see, can consider themselves lucky out there. instead of the children, of course, don't understand all this. yeah. but they have nobody don't know what's happening here. a good bye. oh yeah, honey i would say go with zone zine a focus on monday. have you know they came with the whole family is pretty my to me and so i can as many people come as they like. i'm ok to say it 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 those can you avoid them?
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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 the family sees mainly the good for the relative do in fugette to do hey is let me go to the bottom. ok. i used to have a comes,
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had noticed that will be no rebuff about it because he wasn't, even though i have never so much pain. you meet people then paul play upon and he was, there was so much suffering. so many illnesses look at another task and brought to see what it means. freedom from all that sleeping, it sends out 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 the well being a father is a big thing. i will have to worry about to 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 repay, well, he's done for me, will never be. i'm so causing it hum, jumbled through. do i let me try to explain this to the children that a little it's an evening. we pray and talk with each of the ladies who are doing without having to hand her live. oh no,
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we're going to use that for every want. it's a. c i noticed the family sadness that they will soon lose a loved one. yet 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 or 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 job the 33 year old. never really wanted lots of another game before you tell, but i go to give me are the problem i dreamed of studying, leading a better life? i was having to do this job here. so i have no proper education. so i've had many problems. i tried different jobs, the 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 completely credited where the engineer window when my children have completed their education by year again, essential years for instance, they have a completely different future ahead of the people they can choose other professions who by john heard to see the people who ended up here don't be money. it means that
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those who are blessed get better jobs nowadays. she didn't know. i didn't know about sally. they don't see the government and he wants his children to leave the dream that was denied to him and something i the lot i got while i looked at my dream is for them to get an education. so i'm going to become better people. i don't have good circle of friends if i can support their dreams with them. i don't know something i'll do everything i can to make it happen for the or it's just after 5 am. it's and 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 i to low because at the same time the media, i believe the family is glad it's over. now since for bias on this and that he will hopefully find salvation here in veronica scenes. yet. news on the has. c c c the
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history present, given the can help you find something you did to everything for assembly. right? until the last moment to out of i know his family must like go there, which getting they brought him here to for honestly knowing this would be the last station of his life. flashing them came with the push, the hold up and you'll be an investor. instead of going to give you a daddy getting on to the family when he got there. everything that's needed for the burning of the body. daniel then don't carry the body from here to the banks, up the guns you submit till they're going to be decorated with wanton burned gully that on him. that's instead of going to the everything has to move quickly. now the soul is to be freed from the dead body
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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 insider now they're carrying him through the streets of around and see for everyone to see not even in the 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 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 supposed to break open, releasing the soul. each
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time for the farewells, the i think of the family what must be going through their minds during the fire for them a 13 day period of morning now begins of the the
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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 the show and 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 convince i've learned why people have a more positive approach to death. and for this shoot, has also changed 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 a really beautiful and reassuring song and switching, i'm vaguely shown on the off the waiting on the down the
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