East is coming up next thank you very much for watching. On counting the cost well look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle easts second largest economy plus new year for European Finance but thats not all lost the chief global economist at u. B. S. Whats his dangerous idea counting the cost at this time on aljazeera. Its. 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 priests public so materials this is where you sleep with your grandma on top of the term yes. Is there a mattress on top of it or. I have my. You have like a farm and put on top do you ever get worried about sleeping on top of the term. Many residents in the capital manila are choosing to live in graveyards to escape the densely populated dangerous slums. Full stop in now if i have a choice now up to no one seemed to know he said that the middle got going. But our once let me turn to me to see that now grown. Up now youre. Not the only seemed the only one maybe im not the same in. Her own c. L. S. Aside. Germs theyre not safe here im steve on this edition of one east we meet the filipinos who live among the dead and. The first glance in this place looks like a normal community. Getting up for the day people are getting ready for work and kids are walking to school going to start irish boy at eight thirty in the morning they just dont leave soulful for years. To journey the siblings make two days a week with a grandmother. But nothing is normal but where they live or where theyre going. These kids attend school in the neighborhood. Anyway it was horrible battle against. Me that day and. When i am not. In school weve been staying on the whole i dont doubt that theyre learning next to it to me. They dont find out that those. Favor instead of something that i race for. The school is exclusively for day and saw that up there yet when they look. For multiple books to school they havent added any. Yet. This brewing similarity to the final resting place of filipino president s console liberty. And its endless rows of tubes on the bodies of more than a million of manila as did. The thousands of its living choose to live here as well. There are Communities Just like this one full across the philippines. One. On. The first thing you notice it aside. City similar to the kids. That. Want to. Get to playground. The good place. And around three hundred families happily call the cemetery home. Residents carry out their daily troops. While streams of creeping families parts by. To bury their loved ones. Celia gussy has called a tomb home for the past ten years joel. Thanks i mean. This is your home yes seeing celias home is a surprise. Silly as houses spread across three different grave sites which is bigger than most others around here. And this is my fifth. House and this is my. Its my day boy and this is my. My house for the city and this is ways sleep with your grandson on top of the turn yes. Is there a mattress on top of it or i i have my form. You have like a farm and put on top do you ever get worried about sleeping on top of the tim. Loved 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 house you know next steps out of bed he said he started this one percent on me. My husband was a caretaker of the office. Thats why im here and leave you. He he brought could. Not for. You cannot will not i dont have time and ive been. 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. Now she hopes care for her family but running a small way each cleaning the graves she leaves on. A common job the looks fade to leave here. But for her and many others in past cemetery the future is always on certain come in play or soon to be. In a big enough i mean i was. Got maybe a little madam delphos another location that rounded up an island and even im an ally. And at. The same the thought. That if the way that i had no money why i thought. But for now daily life and death continues hand in hand. The short distance from seeley is hard to residents have just started work for the day. That i want. To be coming. And ralph have been working on this site in the mud for two days. But this isnt just a grey being dug. Its an eviction of a young girl. Not only can the living be thrown out so you can the did. 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 burial over cremation. Some locals tell me they believe its luck sick and did. Ask why is it capacity for burials so here they were sacu graves. Where you can get. 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 the 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. Right. Now i think that what the couple. Had of love every minute of that thing. About im going to let my galaga young men that im running out of are. I that you know my unit that ive been doing a lot of. Crime. And bad. As they did you graduate at. The cemetery children and to strike today from they came. Right. They show a surprising maturity about it. In good stead watching things like that and. Not. Just thirty minutes after the girls funds were. The same grades 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. I. Wonder if one of the oldest communities i knew most of america weve been collecting god thing the conditions do you understand why some People Choose to leave them out. But its not a choice the local government is happy with the majority of the scimitar is their own by them. Take a trip back to pass ice immaterial to us the local authorities how they feel about the cemetery dwellers. Christina. Show. Christinas office sits on top of the cemeteries scrimmage toria she works with a small team who are busy more than thirty thousand graves in to us. In all that he handed me least now i know body and then what they are from us we cannot do anything about that. You. Were in that. We dont lie them leaving here not because. I need to go in there. 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 our going all but our once let me think of where se but i dont. Know. You all are. Not but all of. You all equal 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 for 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 all waiting living with you and i and our. Ricardo me to a grave he purchased for himself. Inside of the bones of his first one your lender. But theres someone else flying in here someone he should never have had to bury so this is your sons grave. And can you tell me what happened to you. In a better. Though. Again that will not be me. Im going to im not hopeful that im going need to. Recover he says he doesnt know who killed his son or why but his death to all the home marks for the vigilante killing is part of president deter to its war on drugs. Or salama. In the marine shop. And need to be shot. Stabbed. Ive taken on iraq. So were. Going to one in iraq and you lose what i. Say. In the end i will be. 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 prague would say material wealthy families also to stay close to big day but do it in all pillars luxury. He again or no squatters. Im here to me to say cruel architect who designs most a liams something youve been. Used for. In. On the getting them for. My. Resting place news. And i keep telling us i use you mine and i. Dont nothing done. And get a new new one. Michael adrian no designs mausoleums 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 final product will look like. Can we have a look inside this. Well i just here we can you see. The functionary have not found many. Small kitchenette 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 artists to buy the idea of People Living amongst the did. He. Suggest among. Them up a long. Battle in the. Name. For me or rich from me. How much. More are 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 know. 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 just. Because youre watching yes my wife. Daniel says he knew the people buried in his home he buried them himself in that youre not then you and. I know that i dont know and. Im just as ive been then yeah the guy i had i know. I did. But you know better for its own. Peace keeping the promise to guard the graves in his own special way. Just like many others who leave here tells me he will one day be parried in the cemetery. Was. He likes to think the spirit will keep his family here company. Going. China has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. 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