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Rising Cost Of Dying: Egyptians Struggle To Pay For Funerals
['Mariam Ehab', 'Thomas Adam', 'Peter Dziedzic']
Religion Unplugged
The rising cost of dying has reshaped one of Egypt’s oldest social rituals.
Developers now sell cemetery plots that resemble small villas, complete with air conditioning, private garages and round-the-clock security.
The bill before the burialSheikh Tarek Mustafa, 63, runs a funeral-services office that washes, shrouds, transports and buries the dead.
So, Mustafa has started offering his services free to those who cannot pay, and buying graves to set aside for them.
The cost of plots has risen across the board, residential, administrative, commercial and the land set aside for graves alike.