The lighter side of death

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Derek shares an amusing story of the differing attitudes to death from his native England and Malaya.


Some of Derek’s observations seem shocking even to us now:

There seemed to be a different approach to death over there. Life seemed to be cheap and if anyone was knocked over, the shop keepers would come out and just place cardboard over the body until someone came to collect it. There were probably quite a few road accidents at the time. Funerals involved the mourners burning paper money (Hell notes) and other items (such as paper houses, paper cars etc) so that the deceased would be well off in the afterlife.

Another anecdote about the blase attitude towards death is recounted in the rest of Derek’s post, Lingha - which involves the transporting a body in a most unusual way!

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