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In Haiti, festive wakes and Voodoo undertakers help mourners say their last goodbyes
Women prepare food for the funeral of Anaira Jules taking place the following day, as a car headlight illuminates the courtyard in Grand-Bera, Haiti, April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
The coffin of Anaira Jules sits on display at Salem Baptist Church in Grand-Bera, Haiti, April 17, 2021. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
Sisters Fredeline Alfred and Carine Alfred are shown the lights for the airplane-shaped coffin chosen for their recently deceased mother, Anaira Jules, at a morgue in Saint-Marc, Haiti, April 17, 2021. Jules who lived her whole life in a small hamlet in rural Haiti, had never set foot on a plane. But for her last journey, she was sent off in a gleaming white, plane-shaped coffin complete with a wing-tail and illuminated portholes. “Ever since I was little, my mother would tell me it was important for her that her funeral go well,” said Jules’ youngest daughter, Fredeline. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
Madame Sinistre, Berno and Voltaire, relatives of the deceased, Anaira Jules, dance with her coffin behind a marching band, in Grand-Bera, Haiti, April 17, 2021. Mourners fell into trance-like states or wept at the church funeral service for the 77-year old in Grand-Bera, in Haiti’s central department of Artibonite. A marching brass band afterwards accompanied the large procession that carried the plane-coffin to the cemetery. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
A young trumpeter from a brass band plays a few notes outside the home of the deceased, Violette Jean, in Plaisance, Haiti, March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
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