Land in India is at a premium and it is becoming harder to bury the dead. A Christian congregation in Kochi has been forced to find a new way to bury the dead, because the cemetery is running out of room and expanding a graveyard in India is often blocked by objections, bureaucracy and paperwork. Father Jose Chiramel has come up with a new option, which was to share graves. That new practice has an effect on the city of Cochin's largest coffin producer. With land at a premium and increasing in value, these new alternatives may come to be seen by other faiths as a way of solving their own burial problems. Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman reports from Kochi in the southern state of Kerala.
Video courtesy of Aljazeera English.
Video courtesy of Aljazeera English.
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