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Date Posted: 06:01:04 01/31/10 Sun
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In reply to:
NBH
's message, "Re: CHONG Swan Sek" on 23:11:43 01/28/10 Thu
Inspector et al,
I know some people cannot cope with black humour, and I feel for them. But at our age (most of us are 64 or near 64 anyway, as the Beatle song goes, "When I am 64")I think it's time that we laugh at the face of death. May not be funny at the time, but we will give those we left behind a happy memory.
Last year this time, my best friend died (in 9 days, after she informed us of her terminal bowel cancer.) But before she left this world, we had party after party at her death bed. She had the best whisky, peking duck, jook, all her favourite food. She was burried in a cardboard coffin in our favourite Cemetery where we did a great deal of Chinese heritage research. It was a dignified burial. My wife and I were the only non family members invited to speak at her memorial -- we felt honoured. At the anniversary of her death, her family unvailed her headstone, shaped like a Japanese ShintoShrine entrance. At the grave-side picknic, last weekend, we offered her a cup of best tea and a bunch of joss stick. And we still joked about death and dying.
Such is the cycle of life?
Regards, LG
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