Funeral

Singapore time: 3.45 pm 29th Apr 2007

People are wasting money and time to conduct expensive funeral wake and ceremony for burial or cremation. When a person is dead, the spiritual soul in the person has already left. Therefore the corpse is just like the carcases of chicken, pig, duck, goat, fishes in the market or supermarket. Why waste money and time on them.

The dead body should let close relatives and friends to see and after that send for cremation. The ashes after cremation has to be disperse into the sea or better to mix with fertiliser for uses in farms and gardens.

Teng Siow-ping was right to disperse by his family members, his ashes into the sea. This is making a model for others to follow. He was the former leader of China. More world leaders should come forward to pledge their wishes in this disposal of ashes.

I hope people can follow his example and tell their close kins their wishes about disposal of their ashes. In this way grave yards can be converted for more productive uses.