Given city’s ageing population, the government should conduct more promotional activities on end-of-life planning, such as talks and tours of memorial gardens, so that more people may opt for sustainable alternatives and ease demands on burial facilities.
Green burials involve scattering cremated ashes of the dead over pebbles in 13 designated memorial gardens or in waters near Tap Mun, Tung Lung Chau and Lamma Island.
Singapore News - A new funeral services and columbarium complex is likely to be built near the existing Mandai Columbarium to meet an expected increase in demand for after-death facilities. The National Environment Agency (NEA) on Dec 18 said it has identified a site at the junction of. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - Madam Adelynne Tan and her family were expecting to retrieve her deceased father’s ashes at the collection centre of the government-managed Mandai Crematorium on the afternoon of Aug 8. What they got instead was a shock when they were told that his remains had been given. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - Before they could finish paying their respects to their late mother at a columbarium, three brothers were incensed to find that their offerings had been cleared – barely 20 minutes after placing them at the niche. One of them was so upset that he grabbed the. Read more at www.tnp.sg