A day at the funeral parlour
Monday, March 14, 2011
This mortuary is the biggest in the North of the country and is constructed like a royal palace. In fact, if you did not know the place, you would easily confuse it with a residence of a very prominent person because it looks like a State House.
One drives for about two kilometres inside the mortuary yard to get to the entrance of the mortuary. Inside the premises, there are statues of white angels with wings, on both sides of the road. The premises are so neat and quiet it feels as though one is in a foreign country. When parking my car, I quickly notice a long chain of white-canopied hearses, up to 15 of them.
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