It is hard to believe that many people can cohabitate with the dead. However, this happens in North Cemetery, the massive graveyard in Manila, Philippines. The cemetery houses more warm bodies than cold corpses.
10,000 Filipino families live there. Some families end up there almost by accident. Others are too poor to afford to live in the big city. In other words, they basically have nowhere to else to go. People also work to support their lives from collecting scrap metal or repairing tombs. According to Filipino custom, it is obligatory for children to carry coffins for the belief of keeping them safe from vengeful spirit.
There are also basketball hoops, stalls, and mini-markets among the tombs
The Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses
People there are hired to maintain and repair tombs
The house could be the family mausoleum or their employers' mausoleum.
Sheryl Ann M. Muros works voluntarily as a schoolteacher
Children earn money from collecting scrap metal, plastic, and other garbage
Unidentified bones are found around the Manila North Cemetery and they become children's toys
Teenagers carry coffins for 50 Filipino pesos
Residents pay five pesos to sing karaoke in a vacant mausoleum which is used for relaxation or entertainment
Playing cards on top of tombs is a favorite pastime.
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