Wednesday 25 April 2012

Manuela & other teen-idols' graves



German teen-idol Manuela and her beautifully kept grave - 2006.


 another shot of Manuela's grave in Berlin. Her greatest hit was 'Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova'...


Karl Marx is not exactly a 'teen-idol', but he'll stay put at Highgate Cemetery, London. The political thinker and author of the Communist Manifesto died in London in 1883. The huge bust of Marx and monument bearing the epitaph ‘Workers of all lands unite’ was added in 1959, when his grave was moved to the eastern side of a Highgate cemetery.


a well-rehearsed burial Swedish-style.

Sunday 1 April 2012

111


Cleaners mop up the blood and gore left after the Post Mortems performed on the dead bodies of 111 inmates savagely killed by the police of the State of São Paulo in the infamous Carandiru massacre - 2 October 1992.

read more at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carandiru_massacre


Mass murder perpetrated by the Police of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.


GRAVE-DIGGER'S STRIKE



 São Paulo grave-diggers' strike for better pay in 2012. This is Cemiterio Vila Formosa, the biggest in the city.