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Noriaki Iwashima gestures as he lies in a coffin to try it out during an end-of-life seminar held by Japan's largest retailer Aeon Co in Tokyo October 24, 2014. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Noriaki Iwashima gestures as he lies in a coffin to try it out during an end-of-life seminar held by Japan's largest retailer Aeon Co in Tokyo October 24, 2014. Funeral arrangements are normally left to those who have been left behind but the latest trend in Japan, which literally translates to “End of life” preparations, is for the ageing to prepare their own funerals and graves before they set off on their journey to the great beyond. With a population that is expected to shrink by nearly 30 million people over the next 50 years, the market for funerals, graves and anything related to the afterlife is still very much alive. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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10 Nov 2014 13:48:00
Skeletons are arranged in a bar scene as part of a competition to create Day of the Dead altars on pedestrian Regina Street in central Mexico City, Tuesday, November 1, 2016. The holiday honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on Nov. 1 and 2. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)

Skeletons are arranged in a bar scene as part of a competition to create Day of the Dead altars on pedestrian Regina Street in central Mexico City, Tuesday, November 1, 2016. The holiday honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on Nov. 1 and 2. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)
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03 Nov 2016 12:57:00
People walk next to of the pantheon of the Marquesa de San Juan de Nieva, chosen as the best tomb sculpture of Spain in a Spanish magazine this week, in the municipal cemetery of La Carriona in Aviles, northern Spain, October 29, 2015. Catholics will mark All Saints' Day on Sunday by visiting cemeteries and graves of deceased relatives and friends. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

People walk next to of the pantheon of the Marquesa de San Juan de Nieva, chosen as the best tomb sculpture of Spain in a Spanish magazine this week, in the municipal cemetery of La Carriona in Aviles, northern Spain, October 29, 2015. Catholics will mark All Saints' Day on Sunday by visiting cemeteries and graves of deceased relatives and friends. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)
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01 Nov 2015 08:00:00
Youth council member Mia Buckles plays with 18-month-old Kobe Buckles-Benson as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian Residential School near Grayson, Saskatchewan, Canada on July 6, 2021. (Photo by Shannon VanRaes/Reuters)

Youth council member Mia Buckles plays with 18-month-old Kobe Buckles-Benson as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian Residential School near Grayson, Saskatchewan, Canada on July 6, 2021. (Photo by Shannon VanRaes/Reuters)
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16 Mar 2022 05:42:00


Magira, the cat, stands in a new pet cleaning machine known as the PetSpa June 21, 2002 in Miami, Florida. The side-loading washing machine features 37 spray nozzles and is capable of washing, rinsing and blow drying a dog or cat in 30 minutes. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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16 Jun 2011 11:58:00
St. Georges Hall's Rare Minton Floor Tiles Are Prepared For Public Display

Council staff clean a section of the rarely seen Minton tiled floor of the of the grand St. George's Hall on January 4, 2012 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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04 Jan 2012 14:20:00
Cemetery workers repaint tombs inside the municipal cemetery in Navotas city, north of Manila October 29, 2015. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Reuters)

Cemetery workers repaint tombs inside the municipal cemetery in Navotas city, north of Manila October 29, 2015. Filipinos are preparing to celebrate All Saints Day on November 1 by visiting the graves of their departed loved ones. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Reuters)
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02 Nov 2015 08:04:00
Relatives clean the body of Paul Sampe Lumba who has been dead for seven yeas during the Ma'nene ritual at Panggala Village on August 26, 2016 in Toraja, Indonesia. (Photo by Sijori Images/Barcroft Images)

Relatives clean the body of Paul Sampe Lumba who has been dead for seven yeas during the Ma'nene ritual at Panggala Village on August 26, 2016 in Toraja, Indonesia. The Ma'nene ritual in performed during a ceremony every three years, where the dead are exhumed for a change of clothes, among the people of Toraja as an expression of the love of the surviving family. (Photo by Sijori Images/Barcroft Images)
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09 Sep 2016 09:12:00