As the corpse of Eduardo Sanchez is removed from a white
funeral car and placed in a coffin, his daughter starts to sob and gets close
to the coffin to take one last picture of her father. The rest of Sanchez’s
family watches from afar or turns away in sorrow. The stench and sight of the
badly decomposed body are too much to take in. “He was in a morgue for four
weeks,” Sanchez’s niece, Gisangie Navarro, explains. “But we come from
Venezuela, and we did not have enough money to take him anywhere. Now he can
finally get a Christian burial.”More… Friday, September 14, 2018
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As the corpse of Eduardo Sanchez is removed from a white
funeral car and placed in a coffin, his daughter starts to sob and gets close
to the coffin to take one last picture of her father. The rest of Sanchez’s
family watches from afar or turns away in sorrow. The stench and sight of the
badly decomposed body are too much to take in. “He was in a morgue for four
weeks,” Sanchez’s niece, Gisangie Navarro, explains. “But we come from
Venezuela, and we did not have enough money to take him anywhere. Now he can
finally get a Christian burial.”More…
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