As sunlight streams down the whitewashed walls of Nirmal Hriday, the sisters and brothers help them get better, or at least try to give them a measure of peace before death. And almost half of the people do die; their bodies are taken to the hospital morgue and separated according to religion."Most people's gentle acceptance of death is amazing," notes Mark. " 'They are all people completely alone,' a nun told me. 'Very sick, poor and with no one. The men die much faster than the women. The women take a long time to die.'"