Families of coronavirus victims in the Philippines are being denied traditional death rites in favor of hurried, impersonal cremations with virus restrictions often meaning they are forbidden a last look at their loved ones.

It is a painful and disorienting process for both the families and crematory workers that has upended the Philippines’ intimate rituals of laying the dead to rest.

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