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... your funeral would be like this?
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Wednesday night after work, mum told me that a church friend's mother-in-law had passed away. So we finished up dinner and immediately headed to OUG. Was quite surprised to find a funeral service going on at the house. I had thought that the deceased was Taoist. Turns out that she had converted 2 minutes before passing away at the hospice (before this, her daughter-in-law cared for her, clean and tube-fed her at home... even her own daughter did not). For 30 years, her Catholic daughter-in-law couldn't convince her, but on her deathbed, the Methodist volunteers saved her soul. That's some way to 'close a sale'. :P. Anyway, sat through half of the service and ate some peanuts. Such a standard for Chinese funerals. Later on, we gathered around the coffin and did our little own prayer session. One of the BEC members fished a little booklet out of her handbag, but wasn't keen on leading, so SK took the lead! We had thought that the seniors had more experience... mana tahu. :P. We just did our very own version with a mixture of the Holy Rosary, prayers from the funerary booklet and the Litany of the Saints. think it went quite well for an impromptu prayer session. Hehe. Kudos to SK. Sang a couple of Chinese hymns and did a last minute "Amazing Grace" with the lyrics read from the iPhone. Useful little gadget! At the end, we wished each other peace and went out for some fried bihun and red bean soup. The old lady was cremated the next day and laid to rest... May she rest in peace.