A temporary home

The holy city of Waranasi in India. People having the luck of dying in this place immediately reach nirvana and are freed from the continuing cycle of birth and death. People moving on in their lives come here from across the whole country. The completely devote themselves to prayer and in meditation wait for their death. The houses in Waranasi provide shelter for thousands of people, and every single individual decided to withdraw from life as they knew it under different circumstances. On the ghata stone steps leading to the Ganges there are two pyres: the smoke from the burnt bo-dies brushes up against the taller buildings close by.