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The places where grief teaches us about who we are
And memorialising those who have passed is an important social and cultural process.
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Scholars have shown that we need to see grief as more than a phase, but as part of a longer social and cultural process of remembrance and memorialising, reflecting who we are and how we have changed as a society.
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Terence Heng
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It has been more than a decade since I started my research into Chinese religion and spirituality in Singapore.
From Bukit Brown Cemetery to our annual Hungry Ghost Festival, I have witnessed a great number of rituals, events, processions
