'Every Day There is Death,' Nun Says

Nov 292010

In Kolkata, a volunteer cradled a woman at Mother Teresa's Nirmal Hriday home for the dying and destitute, which has more than 100 residents.

As a volunteer dabs medicine on a gaping sore that exposes his shin bone, a skeletal man slumps on the steps of the place where he's come to die. Inside Mother Teresa's Nirmal Hriday home for the dying and destitute, 110 men and women lie silently on rows of cots.

'Every day there is death,' nun says
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