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What happens to our bodies after we die? - Farnaz Khatibi Jafari

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Since the dawn of humanity, an estimated 100.8 billion people have lived and died, a number that increases by about 0.8% of the world’s population each year. What happens to all of those peoples’ bodies after they die? And will the planet eventually run out of burial space? Farnaz Khatibi Jafari traces the evolution of how humanity has treated bodies and burials.

The number of people who have died increase to what percent of the world’s population every year?

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  • Educator Farnaz Khatibi Jafari
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  • Director Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson Volda
  • Animator Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson Volda
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