The slums of the Philippines
Manila North Cemetery is the largest Philippine National Cemetery, also lived here thousands of Philippine poor people.
This public cemetery is not silence and ghastly, and every day it is a tremendous hubbub, formed the Philippines features graveyard slums. Official sources, in Manila has 5 million poor people live in the entire cemetery
According to historian said that since 1884 cemetery opened, the living and the dead began at the check-in. This 135-acre cemetery was mainly used for the interment of the rich and famous, along with the dead buried often valuables, and thus need to employ official tomb.
But in the past few decades, where rapid population expansion, more and more poor people in the camp among the tombstones. The extreme shortage of housing in this country, officials also do nothing to face this phenomenon. In addition to sometimes cut the private access line , they can not deport them
On Earth, also there is very little place such like here, poverty and crowded train so strange combination of the living men and the dead men. Here, often have the baby was born here, someone buried yonder. The children had been taught to respect for the dead, do not play or make a noise in slowly funeral team.
There is no official record about the history of this graveyard inhabitants. They only use a iron sheet as rain shield. They can only be used in a place above a Tin to rain. Children sometimes sleep in marble headstone, also do their homeword at here.
Every major holiday, some people living here would be to strip tombstone 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.
These poor people just continue this unique life style age after age. When leisure time, a number of people passionately sing karaoke.
The residents here have a more open-minded attitude than ordinary to life and death, and many people believe that after death to continue with the pro-people "living" together, is also a good choice.
