Digging Up The Dead - Burying Your Loved Ones Not Once, But Twice // Discovery on Viddsee

In Hanoi's vast Van Dien cemetery, Mrs Mai prepares her father-in-law's traditional second burial, while the gravediggers who exhume the bones reflect on their duty to the dead.

An intimate look at Vietnam's ritual of double burial and the people who tend to the dead.

For the Vietnamese, modernization is not only affecting them in life but also in death. Traditionally, people are not just buried once but twice. By digging up the bones of the dead, the Vietnamese believe their loved on

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