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Guatemala's constant streak of murders ,17-a-day, provide a steady flow of customers to unregulated funeral homes, where funeral workers can embalm corpses in the back of auto repair shop or rush to crime scenes to gather information that will…

'She floated away like a dove..Two beautiful doves coming to get her sister. And they flew off together.' -Thelma Mobley. Birds fly past the pink cascade of flowers on Classie's grave at Cedar Hill Cemetery in MD. The hospice chaplain believed…

'She gave so much and asked for so little.” -Shirley Bell, cousin Shirley Bell as she calms her with a touch. “I watched her comfort Roz…Even though she couldn’t see and she couldn’t speak, but you always knew when Classie was close to…

'Nobody but me now Lord...All my friends died. All of them.' -Classie Caregiver Ann White explained “She got up and looked at the door and said, ‘That’s Roz!’ Well, I said OK, but she can’t take you yet.' Classie felt the need to look out…

'We didn't come here to stay. When you sit in church at somebody else's funeral you sit there knowing that one day it's going to be yours.' -Gloria Henderson, niece. Relatives from out of town attend funeral services with Classie. Her niece Gloria…

'She looked so sweet, so pretty. Like she staying there sleeping.' -Classie Classie visits Hortons funeral parlor the evening before her sister's funeral to be sure she was properly dressed for viewing. Her relatives supported her as she crumpled…

'She's gone. She's gone. Oh, Lordy, and that was all I had.' -Classie Classie weeps with anguish as hospice nurses prepare her sister's body for transport to the funeral parlor after she passed away in the middle of the night on New Year's eve.

'No greater love.' -Gloria Henderson, niece. Classie whispers words of farewell to Rozzie as she realizes their time together is coming to an end. “You can go to sleep now,” she said gently. She stood at her bedside for a long time, laying her…

'Time's short but he is going to let her come home.' -Classie Rozzie is returned home to die. She was taken to the hospital after falling ill with pneumonia and it was determined to be a sign of the last stages of Alzheimer's. Classie's greatest…

'They were young once, we all get old. I hope I have someone to take care of me.' -Marilyn Daniel, health aide. Classie waits for hours at the doorway for her sister to return from the hospital after falling ill with pneumonia. She anxiously…