The Philippines, "Land of the Dead Tomb"
Cemetery
north of Manila, the Philippines, the country's largest cemetery, while
thousands of the Philippines, where poor people live.
Knott
District is located in the public cemetery, this place is not quiet
dark day, to noisy, bustling incomparably, forming characteristics
cemetery slum in the Philippines. Officials said in Manila, 5 million poor people live in throughout the cemetery. According
to the historian said that since the cemetery opened in 1884 Knott has
been the living and the dead began to stay at the same time. Piece
of the cemetery covers an area of 135 acres originally mainly used to
bury the rich and elite, due to accompany the dead are often buried
valuables, and thus the need to hire, the grave keeper. Very
few places on earth, like here, like poverty and crowded living and
bringing up such a strange combination of the survival of the dead. Here, here, babies are often born, people were buried there. Children
are taught from childhood to respect the dead, not in the slow march of
the funeral of team play or noise in the vicinity. But in the past few decades, where rapid population expansion, more and more poor people in the camp among the tombstones. Acute shortage of housing in this country, officials are also frustrated the face of this phenomenon. In addition to private access Luanla sometimes cut the line, they can not deport them. The inhabitants of the graveyard of history are no official records. They can only accommodation at the top of an iron nail to rain. Sometimes the kids sleep in the marble headstone, but also in that the above to do their homework. Every
major holidays, a number of people living here would be to strip
headstone as a table, in the above display a variety of food to
celebrate. There are no toilets or running water, dirty water overflowing the narrow road. Secretly connected to the wires in the headstone heap winding, municipal officials are often cut. Philippines Knott cemetery is such poor people from generation to generation to continue with this unique way of life. Leisure time, many people have drunkenly singing karaoke OK. The
residents here have a life and death than the common people more
open-minded attitude, many people believe that after death continue to
work with the pro-people "living" together, is also a good choice.
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