Could you live and work with the dead?

A child plays with a kite in Pasay City Cemetery.

A child plays with a kite in Pasay City Cemetery. Source: SBS Dateline

Dateline travels to the Philippines to meet the unique communities who live in cemeteries and care for its dead.


For many of the Filipinos living in cemeteries, it is a welcome alternative to living in overcrowded slums, where conditions are often worse.

Tondo, located near a port and industrial section of the Filipino capital Manila, is the city’s largest slum and is one of the most densely populated places in the world. More than 600,000 people live there – it’s the biggest district in Manila. The slum is covered in garbage, and many of the people there make a living by doing their best to collect it, or rummage through it looking for materials that can be resold.


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