Trend - No funeral wakes to cut expenses!Your thoughts?
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Birth is celebrated, so are weddings and anniversaries. What about DEATH! Yes death seem to be celebrated too! They say it is a celebration of the end of LIFE! BUT hey wait a minute...it can be very expensive. After having paid the hospital bills etc( assuming after an illness) is there enough for an elaborate celebration of end of life? Considering that families are getting smaller and busier..who has the time to attend wakes? I remember many years ago when a dear aunt of mine died in her 40's , he r wake lasted 5 days and the church was thronged with family relative and friends to send her off. Recently an uncle died in his 80's, nobody informed us of his death. we were later told there ws no wake ! Straight from the hospital mortuary to the crematorium for the earliest possible cremation time and then his ashes were cast to the sea ! It was back to work for immediate family members who were too busy with business and travel. I am also told that wakes can be an expensive affair. Funeral parlours charge from 400 dollars up to 1000 dollars a day. So a 5 day wake could cost anything from 2000/- to 5,000/- dollars just on accomodating the coffin in a parlour! Not forgetting the embalming cost and other ancillary support service expenses like prayer services catering titbits etc. Busy Singaporeans it seems are now opting for quick cremations and disposal of ashes to the sea, forgoing the wake ! ( a boat to do that cost about 380 dollars)
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i think they took package A, that's also my choice when i die. -
i suxx.