Today's post is a somewhat appropriate subject for the holiday,not that I planned it that way,it's just the way it happened.
In the Philippines at the Manila North Cemetery there a families living and sometimes doing business in the family crypt. Currently the population of the cemetery is around 10,000 and there are people 60 years old who have been born and lived their entire lives there. 70 years ago as families became too poor to pay their rent they began moving in with their deceased relatives,some started businesses,others worked digging graves or worked security. The children often carry coffins for $.50 as it is said to bring good luck. In 2007 the mayor threatened to evict the whole cemetery as just like regular cities a bad element had moved in with thieves and drug addicts who were robbing the graves,I guess they will need to organize their own police force now that the thugs have moved in!
In the Philippines at the Manila North Cemetery there a families living and sometimes doing business in the family crypt. Currently the population of the cemetery is around 10,000 and there are people 60 years old who have been born and lived their entire lives there. 70 years ago as families became too poor to pay their rent they began moving in with their deceased relatives,some started businesses,others worked digging graves or worked security. The children often carry coffins for $.50 as it is said to bring good luck. In 2007 the mayor threatened to evict the whole cemetery as just like regular cities a bad element had moved in with thieves and drug addicts who were robbing the graves,I guess they will need to organize their own police force now that the thugs have moved in!
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