Follow the link below and click on the "listen" button just below the headline. As a funeral director I was astonished to hear the honking of a literal traffic jam in the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto, South Africa.
The story is primarily about the tragic AIDS epidemic rampant and horribly pushed underground by social stigma and government ineptitude. The correspondent Gwen Thompkins uses the racket at the cemetery as effective bookends to help tell her story.
It will give you a whole new perspective and appreciation for the orderly way we in America get to organize and run our funerals. Could you possibly imagine honking and sirens of several different funeral processions all crushing to beat each other to grave sites? We live in a very special place.
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