The Good Death

" In a region of northern India, some people at the end of their lives leave their villages and travel to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (Benares) to die. These pilgrims believe that by dying in Varanasi they will obtain the spiritual reward of Moksha – liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth."

Christopher Justice, Dying the Good Death: the Pilgrimage to Die in India’s Holy City.

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