Bye CCK n Hi Punggol
Paid a short visit to Grandpa's grave at CCK today. The government is reclaiming the area for future developments so the bones would have to be moved, so this is the last time I'll be going there to pay my respects. So i brought along the camera to capture what I could before all these images were gone for good.
I assume those guys at the cemetery would be hacking at his tombstone about 3 or 4am this morning. Wonder why they choose to do it in the wee hours of the morning...The ritual today was meant to inform the dead that we'll be moving his remains to another place. That would be another ritual which would have to be conducted in another 3 days later. Rituals... Don't think i'll be observing much of all these in the future. Two reasons,
- I'm not well-informed about them.
- Too much of a hassle especially for something that we have no idea if the deceased could actually receive.
Oh well...
posted by Ah Cat at 1:06 am
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Hmm... Usually Exhumations and subsequent cremations are relatively simple affairs in Singapore...
I watched one of them during a screening of some award-winning student documentary about it...
It's not respectful to disturb someone who's already laid to rest, so usually they just a simple ceremony first, to sort of pacify the "people" in the cemetary. And then after that, the workers come in to get the remains or what remains of the remains...
Then they're all sent to the Crematorium and Columbarium and another ceremony to "let them know" that's their new home...
i live in punggol, i wonder where it would be..
Not sure if they're gonna build a new columbarium there... The nearest ones I know are in Mount Vernon, somewhere behind the SPCA...
Actually they 're placing it within a temple. Some temples accept urns so they're putting it there. My grandma's ashes are there already so just move my granda over.
I've come a conclusion. If you want to be buried instead of cremated, consider getting freehold property. Lest they reclaim the land and you'll still have to move.
Well Eugene, its something like what you saw in the documentary. Actually we have an option of leaving it for the government to clear or you do pte. If you do it private you could be there to see the exhumation.
Aw... How sweet... Being able to still be next to each other in death...
I can't believe that the cemetery posting is generating the most feedback by far... Kinda weird.
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