Thread: Pinoy funeral parlors swamped with bodies, but they are not making money

Undertakers in the Philippines have never been busier with an average of five corpses bring brought into a funeral parlor each night, mostly from slums, five months since President Rodrigo Duterte’s launch of the bloody drug war against illegal drugs, according to a report in The Manila Times Online on Saturday.

The drug-related deaths have swamped most funeral parlors that some undertakers have said they wanted the killings to stop.

“This shouldn’t happen, they are people, not animals,” Alejandro Ormeneta told AFP as he recalled taking out three nails hammered into the skull of an alleged drug trafficker.
“I think he was still alive when they hammered the nails. They tied him up first, put tape around the head, then hammered the nails in…that must have been so painful. I felt so sorry for him,” said Ormeneta.

On a typical night recently, Ormeneta walked down a narrow alleyway into a shanty where masked assailants had shot a man dead, the victim’s body still smelling of alcohol and revealed multiple gunshots to his head and body.

Police claimed that the victim had sold shabu, the cheap crystal methamphetamine that President Duterte says is ruining the society and must be eradicated.

But the victim’s sister insisted that he had stopped the illegal practice and had even reported himself to the police as part of Duterte’s campaign to pressure drug traffickers and users into surrendering.

Despite the continuing flow of corpses, funeral parlors are not necessarily making lots of money because families of most of the victims are too poor to be able to pay for the funeral.

Funeral director Rico Teodocio said that prices range from P18,000 to P400,000 ($360 to $8,000).

Funeral parlors swamped with bodies, but they are not making money |

Considering the status quo of PI politics, expect more dead bodies to show up.

The prisons are overflowing too.



By Tom Rayner, South East Asia Correspondent

Prison officers in the Philippines are concerned that jail overcrowding as a result of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war is pushing the system to breaking point.

Latest figures show police have made more than 40,000 drug-related arrests since the anti-drug campaign was launched by the new leader when he took office in July.

Quezon City Jail has become infamous after photographs taken shortly after the start of the drug war showed inmates crammed into every inch of space, forced to sleep out of their cells in what would normally be recreation areas.

But the problems continue.

The facility was built to house 800 detainees, but currently there are nearly 3,000 within its walls. Sky News saw individual cells built for 20-30 people packed with 130 and more.

Philippines jails at 'breaking point' amid Duterte's drugs war

It's quite easy really.

Drug dealers need to be exterminated and what ever way they are exterminated is fair crack.

Drug users need rehabilitation.

So one has a choice, be a dealer and die if caught or be a user and have a crack at rehabilitation.

Hard drugs only I'm referring to.

ASEAN ain't looking too great, is it? Were it not for Singapore, Indonesia and (less so) Malaysia, the whole thing might just as well implode.

Originally Posted by sabang

ASEAN ain't looking too great, is it? Were it not for Singapore, Indonesia and (less so) Malaysia, the whole thing might just as well implode.

Yes, it's a shame it's going the same route as the EU.

Originally Posted by GracelessFawn

Extreme overcrowding is the most punishing aspect of doing time in PI jails. Add water shortage and dirty toilets to that list...... In some prisons, the prisoners take turns sleeping coz they won't fit if they all sleep at the same time.

Written in a different thread, but somewhat relevant.