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Death and oblivion

Dead Bodies Reduction in the Central La Paz Cementer, Bolivia. 

After five years of renting a grave, families can renew the contract or get the bodies back to incinerate them. After those five years, the Town Hall put a remembering note on graves to hurry families to decide what to do. They have ten days to get their situation arranged, but a lot of times, for many situations, like the death of all the rest of the family or when they live in another city or country, nobody can assume the dead bodies situation. That’s when the cementers workers have to deal the “forgotten dead” people. The take them out of the grave, reduce them in a black plastic bag and put them for some more waiting months until they go to the common grave. 

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