Memories of 1965 Taal eruption still gives ex-funeral parlor helper shivers

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The images of death in the aftermath of the 1965 eruption of Taal Volcano still give 73-year-old Vicente Pablo Jr. chills and nightmares.

He may have already seen enough as a teen helper for a funeral parlor in Taal then, but the deformities and the extent of damage inflicted by the pyroclastic materials on the cadavers he was asked to retrieve are the ones that continue to give him shivers.So when he felt the same tremor, heard the same rumblings and saw the same ash plumes on Sunday afternoon, he immediately responded to the first thing that comes out of his mind – flee.

“We were asked to retrieve the body near the rice field. It took us a few hours of digging using bare hands and sticks before we found the body. How she died was horrifying,” said Lolo King. The cadaver of the old woman that King described was among the more than 50 bodies recovered during the 1965 Taal Volcano eruption. More than 130 others were reported missing.

 

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