South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “The funeral director ensuring proper farewells for Hong Kong’s elderly” – below is their description.
Chen Pui-hing has an unconventional job. The Hong Kong funeral director is focused on making sure there is a respectful final farewell for people who die alone and with few or no friends and loved ones to grieve their loss. Chen, who considers his role in arranging such send-offs a life mission, is now trying to also serve the living by organising workshops to help Hongkongers better cope with death and grief.
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Lessons in life and death with a Hong Kong funeral director https://sc.mp/m3uf
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Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.