People
take unclaimed human remains out of a graves during a Thai Chinese
ceremony at the Mang Teung Sua Jung Cemetery in Chonburi province
southeast of Bangkok. Every decade, hundreds of people
wearing white, a customary funerary colour as well as for visiting temples,
gather at this cemetery to exhume and cremate corpses as they believe
they are helping the dead who have no friends or relatives. The ashes of
the unclaimed bodies are spread on the sea to make room at the burial
ground for more unclaimed bodies in the coming years. The tradition
originated 90 years ago after diseases like Malaria killed many of Thais
of Chinese descent living in Chonburi.
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| Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Workers resting after grave exhumations. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Cleaning human remains. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| People carry unclaimed human remains taken out of a grave during a Thai Chinese ceremony at the Mang Teung Sua Jung Cemetery. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| A man prays holding a skull of unclaimed body taken out of a grave. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Unclaimed bodies are taken out of graves. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| People praying next to bags of unclaimed remains. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| People take unclaimed human remains out of a grave. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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| Open graves. Photo credit: Damir Sagolj |
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