A few weeks ago, KC producer Alex Atak and I got on a call because he'd been working on a new story.

Okay, so maybe should I just start by telling you how I found out about the story?

Yes, tell me, take it start at the beginning.

So I was having a conversation with my friend and he'd lived in the UAE his whole life, brought

up in the UAE, his dad moved there way back in the day, like, I think pre-70s kind of thing.

And his dad had died recently and he was buried in Dubai.

And he was telling me that he'd been at his dad's graveyard that morning replacing the flowers on his grave. And then it got

me thinking, like, I'd never, like, actually seen a graveyard in Dubai. And I've never had to think about

death in Dubai. Alex, by the way, is a British citizen who was brought up in Dubai. I think I

wouldn't have known what I was going to do if somebody died in my family.

You know, if my dad lived there, my mom lived there.

And so I would, and if they'd have died, I wouldn't have had a clue what the next steps

would have been.

So it's making you think, like, well, what happens when we die here?

Like, where do we go?

Yeah, completely. I guess what I got interested in with this story was like, when a country has

such a kind of big population of foreigners and there's lots of different religions, lots of

different nationalities, how do they deal with their dead?

In the UAE, more than 80% of the population are foreigners, which means there's a high demand

for something called repatriation. To repatriate is to return to your home country, and

repatriating somebody's body after they die in the UAE is a complicated process.

As we learned reporting the story, it's much easier if you have someone guiding you through that

...