23 March 2009

Final Journey.

Today is my late-cousin final journey. My dad, uncle, mother, brother and I meet somewhere near to my aunt place and ride their car to Bright Hill Monastery. We reached at 0830 hours. My late-cousin friends about 4 of them are there too.

About 0845 hours, the coffin car arrives. We follows the coffin car behind and walk to cremate area. The adults can not offer joss stick as their ages are older than decreased. So, we and some of my late-cousin friends offer the joss stick and the monk arrive and start chanting. While the monk chanting, I cried silently. All of us pray... Then, we follow the monk walk circle around the coffin and soon... the coffin pushed in the cremation oven and cremate.

After that, we went to other temple for another prayer. After the prayer, we went for breakfast/lunch. We had 素. About 1200 hours, we return back to Bright Hill Monastery to collect the ashes. Before collecting the ashes, we went to my cousin new home where her ashes will be keep. Finally, find her new home and we head to ash collecting center to collect her ash.

We went to ash collecting center. We put some coins into the urn. Families and friends pick the bones and put inside the urn. Then, the monks arrives and chanting, we offer the joss sticks and follows the monks to put the urn and some prayers.

Finally, it all done. The final journey for my late-cousin ends here. Although all of us feel sad but I also feel happy that, she no need to face any old ages problem or any illness problems. May you rest in peace my Beloved cousin. I will always miss her from my heart.