[Tade0]

There's an interesting film focused on this topic:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1499420/

The author traveled through Cameroon and documented, among other things, the realities of having a backlog of dead one must properly bury.

Turns out not everyone can afford putting their deceased relatives in a freezer - especially for extended periods of time, so sometimes the dead are stored in a separate storage area next to the home until the living gather the necessary funds.

[JumpCrisscross]

> so sometimes the dead are stored in a separate storage area next to the home until the living gather the necessary funds

Isn't this an own goal when it comes to disease?

[decimalenough]

Doesn't stop the Torajans in Indonesia for storing the corpses inside their own houses, sometimes for years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/oct/13/cleani... (warning: graphic)

[Tade0]

Well, there are many worse systemic issues in the region.

It's been 15 years since I saw that movie, but I recall the remains presented to be just the skull and some larger bones - all dried out completely.

What happened to the rest of the body I don't recall.