one haitian man, who helped bury 2,500 people in three mass graves, said: "you have to understand that it's completely un-haitian to dump bodies like this. we have extreme respect for the dead. and these people deserve a decent burial." later, he and other volunteers put up crosses to mark the graves, put holy water on the graves, and had a priest say prayers for the dead. like at the mass graves for the plague victims, they were still trying to honor the dead, even though they had to bury them in mass graves.