Asked the chief global economist at u. B. S. Whats his dangerous idea counting the cost at this time on al jazeera new yorkers are very receptive to aljazeera because it is such an International City they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. For the poor life in one of asias biggest cities can be a grave situation. In the philippines they are finding a home in the most unlikely of places Public Cemeteries and this is ways they put your grandsons on top of the term yes. Is there a mattress on top of it or. I have my. You know like a farm that you put on top you have to get worried about sleeping on top of that and. Many residents in the capital manila are choosing to live in graveyards to escape the densely populated dangerous slums. Full stop. If i have a choice now but no one seemed to know hes. Going. But i once let me. See. What. I mean if not. Only maybe im not the same man all wrong see that. Theyre not safe here im steve on this edition of one east we meet the filipinos who live among the dead and. First glance this place looks like a normal community. Getting up for the day people are getting ready for work and kids are walking to school to start a marriage boy at eight thirty in the morning they just believed old school for years. To do anything siblings make two days a week with their grandma. But nothing is normal about where they live where theyre going. These kids attend school in the neighborhood. Anyway able to pull battle. With that they. Are. Right now. Im. In school. Im out of here learning next to attorney. They dont find that. They were born here instead of something their race. This is school is exclusively for them so that their year when they. For most of us the school they are adding. Yet. This ruling scimitar the final resting place of filipino president s and celebrities. In its endless rows of two hundred forty seven more than a million of manila as did. The thousands of its leading jews to leave here as well. There are Communities Just like this one full of cross the philippines. The first thing you notice a city say material see kids. Going to. Have that. Car i go there with. You to playground. A good place. And around three hundred families happily cool the cemetery. Residents carry out their day we troops. Will stream to creeping families spine. To bury their loved ones. Celia gussie has called a tomb owner for the past ten years. Thanks for having me. This is your home yes seeing sealy is home is a soprano its. Silly as houses spread across three different grave sites which is bigger than most others around here. And this is my fifth and was way above all else and this is my. Its my baby boy and its just my. My house or the city and this is we sleep with your grandsons on top of the turn yes. Is there a mattress on top of it or i i have my. You have like a farm and put on top you have to get worried about sleeping on top of the time. It was love to the brute celia to the cemetery. The husband to be already lived and worked here. So she moved in with i me where i was working. There in how teddy bear in this invading us on our last unit steps out of bed he said he started on this one percent i mean. My husband was a caretaker of the office. Thats why im here and leave you. He he brought could. Not. You cannot will not i dont have time right here. Living here isnt allowed the oath ortiz turned a blind eye to the residence and youve got a t. V. And how do you get electricity in. A jumper. Sillier steals power but its the only way to get electricity its not uncommon to the residents to tap into the cemeteries wireds to supply power to their homes. Celia buried her husband more than two decades ago at a nearby cemetery. And. Now she helps care for her family but running a small way cleaning the graves she leaves on. A common job for a lot of people who live here. But for her and many others in past cemetery the future is always on certain come in play or soon to be. Helpless im not going to be an awful family now i was. Got me a good film i dont know whats another location that rounded up an island and the island. And at. The same. The plane that im on now my why. But for now daily life in death continues hand in hand. The short distance from seeley is home to residents have just started work for the day. That i want. To be coming. Home to. Write and ralph have been working on this site in the mud for two days. But this isnt just a grey being dug. Its an addiction of a young girl. Not only can the living be thrown out so you can the dead but. I am. Out of america i mean. Graves at the cemetery have a fog you ladies. Many families cant afford to pay beyond that so the bones are removed making way for a new body i. Filipinos five years burial over cremation. Some locals tell me they believe its like sick and dead. Ask why is it capacity for burials so here they were saku graves. Will begin. The bones will be placed in a bag ready for the family to collect. I i. Call it. Sifting through the mud with a big hands an important part of a job is to make sure to leave nothing behind. By. This hard work and to write and ralph around five hundred pesos. Thats around twelve dollars. Even by. Our very fact what the couple. Have loved every minute of. Bring. It out im going to let my galaga the young men that are running out of our. Either you know my unit that ive been doing a lot of. Bad. As they did the gratitude. The cemetery children on to strength to from they came. To live. They show a surprising maturity about this. In good stead watching things like that in. My. Family. Just thirty minutes after the kills funds were. The same graves is ready for someone else. So why do People Choose to live in cemetery its. So many families its a choice between life in this. All life in the cemetery. Was. Islam is tondo one of the most densely populated places in the world. This one is one of the oldest communities i hear most of america weve been collecting. Thing the conditions and why some People Choose to leave the money. But its not a choice the local government is happy with the majority of the cemeteries are owned by them. I take a trip back to past sites immaterial to us the local authorities how they feel about the cemetery dwellers. Christina. Show and. Christinas office sits on top of the cemeteries scrimmage toria she works with a small team who oversee more than thirty thousand graves in to and. In all that he handed me least now i know body and then what theyre from us we cannot do anything about that. You. Were in that. We dont lie them leaving here not because. I you know i mean i need to go in there but. Its not fair. The ferry. Christina cant confirm if people like celia will be allowed to stay here. But she believes a life outside the cemetery would be the best thing for everyone pulls up in now if i have a choice now but no one seems now he said that that made outgoing. But i was led on by me or see but i dont know. Now. You all are. Not but only. You only could maybe im not the same in. Her own see less. Germs theyre not safe here. Despite the citys misgivings people have been living in graveyards to decay. Ricardo medina has lived here for fifty years. He shares his home with his third wife resurrection. Each well used all of his children in this ramshackle house which between two apartment style tunes and you live here with your children. How many children. Youve been. On. And always hanging live here with you and i and our. Ricardo laid me to a grave he purchased for himself. Inside of the bones of his first one youll end up. With this someone else lying in here someone he should never have had to bury so this is your sons growth. And can you tell me what happened to you. Been a better. Though. I gave up the big. No no. Im going to im not hopeful that i need to. Recover he says he doesnt know who killed his son well why did his death pull all the home marks for the vigilante killing as part of president deter to its war on drugs. But i mean your update. And you. In the marine shop. And meeting people shot. Stabbed. But they cannot iraq. So were. Going to run in iraq and leave you what i. Say. The nanny and i will be. A. Little too long and i will embarrass. Her in the only. But my. Familys here spend birthdays and anniversaries with it did. Often staying for hours even days. That being ritual pole will determine where your bones are laid to rest. In private say material wealthy families also stay close to a day but do it. There are no school to. Im here to me to say cruel architect who designs most a liams something youve been. In the news for. In. On the getting them for. My. Resting place needle. And i keep telling us i use you mine and i. Dont nothing done. And get a new one new. Michael adrian no designed. That all for not only a resting place but often a kitchen toilet bedroom and entertaining area for visiting family my latest design. Project and this is what the farm board up will look like. Can we have a look inside this. Well i just here where can you see. The functionary have not found any where there is a small kitchen and here and barbecue grill its massive i mean this is bigger than. Me and. Mark was designed to show how comfortable filipinos. In some ways to make sense why many young to stood by the idea of people leaving amongst the did. So so just a month. Long miami. But all in the. Name. For me or rich from me. How much. I expected life in a cemetery to be macabre and sad but despite the uncertainty people have made a warm welcoming community. They make the most of where life begins and where it ends. Your life. As not fools i make my way to a home famous for a filipino pastime i dont your peers as to me here and we have a look at your highness come to my house thank you. Daniel is sixty seven years old another long time resident like. Hes lived since he. Has your watch yes my wife. Daniel says he knew the people buried in his home he buried them himself into that youre not then you and. I know that i dont. Know yet if i had i know. I did. Bonito better for its own. Peace keeping the promise to guard their graves in his own special way. Just like many others who leave. Tells me he will one day in the cemetery. Was. He like to think the spirit will keep his family here company. Knowing. That. China has a serious shortage of women and along. 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