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Article snippet: The Reader Center is one way we in the newsroom are trying to connect with you, by highlighting your perspectives and experiences and offering insight into how we work. The End, the New York Times series that looks at how we die and what it tells us about how we live, has resonated deeply with readers. Its latest installment — written by Catherine Porter, The Times’s Canada bureau chief, with photos and video by Daniel Berehulak — paints a vivid portrait of the men who bury the abandoned dead in Haiti. Readers were moved by the “great article and visual into a world of misery few of us really see.” For the past decade, Rick Frechette, an American Catholic priest and doctor whom the story follows, and his team have collected and buried the dead left “in gruesome, wet piles that resemble medieval paintings of purgatory” by relatives and friends who cannot afford funeral services. The description of his work prompted an outpouring of support from readers. Here are some of their comments, which have been edited for length and clarity. Catherine’s idea for the story was several years in the making. She first visited Haiti as a columnist for The Toronto Star after the earthquake in 2010 that devastated the country. That trip became the first of many. Catherine has written a book about Haiti, “A Girl Named Lovely,” which will be published in early 2019. Link to the full article to read more