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Block 9 of the Singapore General Hospital along Outram Road is an address that has been seared into my memory.
This is the Health Sciences Authority’s mortuary – the place where people would go to collect the bodies of their family members or relatives who had an unnatural or violent death, or if the cause of death was unknown.

