Barbecue, photoshoots and parties for the dead
People are looking beyond traditional funeral rites to send their loved ones off
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A stall serving chicken kebabs at a wake, held outside a private residence in Bukit Timah, earlier this year.
PHOTO: THE LIFE CELEBRANT
Calvin Yang
Guests laughed and shared memories of the good times - some of them sipping wine and eating ice cream and candy floss.
But this was no party. This was a wake for Madam Lim Geok Khim, who died two years ago after a decade-long fight with breast cancer.