In pictures: Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead, a traditionally joyful annual festival that celebrates reuniting the living with the dead
A woman dressed as a Catrina takes part in a Catrina parade ahead of Day of the Dead in Monterrey, Mexico, October 27, 2019.
The traditional festival honouring the deceased centres around the belief that the living and the dead can commune during the brief period. "We're all afraid of death, and in Mexico, it's part of a celebration, a ritual of colour. It's amazing," said Alejandra Diaz. A giant skeleton rising from the ground, which is a part of an installation to celebrate the Day of the Dead, is pictured at Tlahuac borough in Mexico City, Mexico, October 29, 2019.
A participant holds up a censer during the annual Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City, Mexico, October 27, 2019. The Mexico City government organises various activities for the festival, which in 2003 was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. In his book "The Labyrinth of Solitude," Mexican author Octavio Paz, who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that "the Mexican is familiar with death, jokes with it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it."
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