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Ganges: River to Heaven A somber, sobering, and enlightening documentary that follows four Hindi families at a Kashi hospice in Varanasi, India, in an attempt to detail the highly ingrained religious practices and long-held cultural and ceremonial traditions surrounding the preparation for an eventual death of a family member; shows the funeral rituals that occur more than 100 times per day to obtain salvation for loved ones, including the typically 3-hour cremation or if the deceased was under age 5 or died due to chicken pox, leprosy, or a snake bite, submersion of the rock-weighted corpse in the sacred Ganges River; and describes the increasingly toxic pollution of the river due to rotting corpses, human ashes, and fetid sewage and the efforts to control the pollution and to purify the water for the more than 70,000 people who bathe in the river daily.   Redhead: Year: 2006 Rating:  NR View Ganges: River to Heaven on the Internet Movie Database