As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch
(Story Link) NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that’s cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
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You know people, I’m not smart enough to try and figure out the logic behind this story.
I’m er uh…..speechless. This is one of the most retarded stories I have ever read, and I read a lot of crazy liberal shit!
“Certainly, when the number of dead increases I feel happy, like all workers in the graveyard,” said Basim Hameed , 30, a body washer. “This happiness comes from the increase in the amount of money we have.”
Death is something everyone must face, he noted. “My job demands death, and this is our fate, all of us.”
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