PALMA DEAD,THE BODY RESTS IN ' APARTMENT' AT THE OVERCROWDED AND DIRTY LAOAG ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Palma was not buried in this rich people's memorial park near the century's old RC Cemetery

     The blogger's nephew, Palmarin, 63, died three weeks ago. He had been performing his duties for his wife with Stage 4 cancer--washing her clothes, cooking for her, etc.  he had just cooked rice for lunch. It was a hot, windless day in a place near the classy Maharlika Memorial Park near the Padsan River. He decided to take a bath outside their little bungalow, using pump water. It was past ten in the morning. Suddenly, while pouring water on his frail body, he felt something and tried to stand but failed. He shouted for assistance from his brother and a sister nearby. He collapsed in their arms, and they took him to the hospital. On the way, one of the siblings noticed he was frothing in the mouth--what look like dirty thing were coming out of his mouth. In the hospital, he fell into deep sleep, snoring noisily. He died past two in the afternoon on the same day. 

     Palma's relatives will pay the RC P300 per year for his body' use of the more than  roughly 3,000 "apartments". If they can not pay for the rent for the past  five years, the RC will have to rent the apartment for another tenant. Inside the cemetery are grave plots which are rented higher.

     The blogger was doing his mathematics. For the 3,000 apartments, the RC has an annual income of P90,000. For the plots estimated to be roughly 2,000 and rented at say, P1,000 a year the annual income for the church is P200,000. Or almost P300,000 annual income.
     It is assumed that there is no caretaker of the cemetery, or if there are, maybe one or two? What's their monthly salary?  The RC has much money to hire people to clean the place on a daily basis and respect the dead.