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Singapore Chinese Funeral Traditions and Death Insurance
An article explains Singapore Chinese customs around death including death insurance funded by birth and the three life phases pre death death and final sendoff. It describes death houses first second or third class luxury first class with mourners and priests, a boat-shaped coffin and elaborate banquets with pig shark fin soup and brandy, gongs firecrackers and processions led by a Chinese band.
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