The weekend was exhausting for the living as many visited the graves of their loved ones. It was memorial day or memorial week where many droves of people paid their respect to the tombs of relatives and friends. The cemetery was flooded with the living.
They brought with them items for burning to the dead with hope they will be found useful in the underworld. Those with families brought along the next generation so that they experience first hand the process of life and death. One day's exposure will last a lifetime's experience.
The cemetery was filled with incense burning everywhere as well as many left behind items. After the memorial week is over, the cleaners being paid a certain sum will come to clean up the tombs. Out of the cemetery, the whole body and attire were smelled with incense.
At the Christian cemetery, the atmosphere was one of serenity, quietness, peace and gentleness. No incense but the smell of grassland space where it will one day be filled with the saints.
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