Woman lights COVID victims’ pyres to keep on living
The Hindu
Pandemic does not scare the crematorium caretaker of Thrikkakara municipality, uncertain future does
Seleena Michael has never baulked in the face of a hard life. Neither when her husband walked out on her 20 years ago abandoning their two little daughters, nor when she donned the unconventional role of a crematorium caretaker six years later to feed her young family. Now 57, the frail-looking, but iron-willed Seleena soldiers on as she lights the funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims in Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kit at the crematorium of the Thrikkakara municipality. She has faced immense hardships in life as a single mother to be scared by the prospect of death by a dreaded pandemic. “Fear does not feed empty stomachs or repay mounting debts,” says Seleena nonchalantly.
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