| Around 200,000 dead, the 7.0 magnitude | | | | sort of disrespect for somebody's dead loved |
| earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 left | | | | one. However, with their present situation we |
| an enormous damage to the country. Buildings | | | | cannot blame them for taking such action. This |
| collapsed, homes were totaled, and lives were | | | | too is hard for them. They've already lost loved |
| lost. But infrastructure and survivor recovery is | | | | ones, and now even the bodies of someone they |
| not the most pressing problem of Haitians today, | | | | don't know have become their liability. |
| but believe it or not it's the corpses. It's pitiful that | | | | Burning the bodies, even on the streets, was not |
| one way corpses were disposed, was to burn | | | | the only way they had dealt with the corpses. |
| them right where they were left trapped. One | | | | There were instances that the coffins were dug |
| car, which smashed during the quake and got | | | | up only to place another dead inside. Burning |
| stuck in the rubble, had bodies inside which were | | | | became an option only when there was no other |
| already decomposing. The stench was already | | | | option left. The place already smelled of dead |
| bothering survivors who are living in tents nearby, | | | | people everywhere. |
| so they decided to just burn the car with the | | | | It is a pity how these people have to suffer such |
| bodies when their call to retrieve it were rendered | | | | fate, and how they have to deal with burning |
| useless. | | | | someone they once knew. For a moment there, |
| Since the devastation of the quake, there are no | | | | we were all thinking that finding new homes for |
| words to describe the everyday scenes that | | | | the orphans, as court records reveals were one |
| happen in Haiti. Background check shows how | | | | of the highlighted problems to ensure a good |
| bodies are still continuously recovered from the | | | | future for them. With regards to the dead judging |
| rubble and tractors are piled up with it. Bloody and | | | | their present way of dealing with it can be horrible |
| odious, it can be a bother to those who have | | | | for many yet we have to understand the tough |
| settled in the tents set up as temporary | | | | situation they are in now. They have been |
| evacuation centers. On the days following the | | | | through a lot, and the least they need now is |
| catastrophe, it was only food and water that | | | | skepticism, which they do not deserve at all. |
| were the primary concerns of the survivors. But | | | | What they need is help-from food to water to |
| later on, as death toll increased, dealing with the | | | | medicine. Even a simple prayer is already |
| corpses also became a problem. | | | | something big for the people of Haiti. |
| For some, burning the corpses maybe heinous; a | | | | |