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Inside Taiwan’s Booming Funeral Business By Lee Seok Hwai – Straits Times Indonesia
Taipei. Madam Yuan Cheng-yi, 44, is a make-up artist. But
her clients are neither celebrities nor models and her workplace is a morgue.
The soft-spoken mother of two sons belongs to a rare breed of mortuary make-up artists who are entrusted with the task of helping the dead depart with dignity. There are only about 30 of them in Taiwan.
The work is tough, said Yuan.
“Our job is a perpetual race against time, before the bodies start to decompose,” she said.
“It’s hard work. You’re on your feet for 10 to 20 hours for each case.”
The work is also never over.
“We are always on stand-by – one call and it’s off to work,” she added.
She recalled handling the case of two crew members of a helicopter that had crashed during a rescue mission after Typhoon Morakot devastated southern Taiwan in August 2009.
“One of them had a large chunk of his head sliced off. As for the other, his legs had broken into several pieces,” she said.
It took her 13 hours – minus about five minutes to gulp down some food – to make the two men presentable enough to don funeral robes.
Yuan was a professional make-up artist before she switched to tending to the dead, a job she has been doing for more than six years.
She works for Lung Yen, a leading funeral service company, and handles up to 20 cases a month.
In Taiwan, servicing the dead is a thriving $2.7 billion a year industry that is built on tradition and, increasingly, on corporate management and novel services.
Deeply ingrained with the traditional Chinese reverence for the dead, Taiwanese families spend an average of NT$380,000 on complex funeral and burial rites for their loved ones – a small fortune considering that the average monthly salary is NT$40,000.
The funeral process – from the mortuary to the wake, and then cremation – can last between 10 and 14 days, considerably longer than that in other Chinese- speaking regions.
Q:
What do you think about Taiwan’s booming funeral business?
What do you think about the job of make-up artist for dead people?
What do you think if you workplace is a morgue?
Will you take funeral business job with high pay?
What do you think the Taiwanese funeral process?
“Taiwanese families spend an average of nt$380,000 on complex funeral and burial rites for their loved ones” what do you think about this information?商業化
Young People, Commercialism and Social
Change
Young people aren't the only ones buying
more stuff today. While clothes, backpacks and music are filled with commercial
references more often than ever before, it is obvious that schools and youth
programs are for sale more than ever before.
Commercialism is the addiction has to stuff
that's being sold, including images, ideas and culture. Around the world
children and youth are struggling to find a different way to relate to the
corporate and commercial culture that has been built around them. Basketball
players, television stations, schoolbook covers... there is no limit what
commercialism young people are challenging.
Resources related to Children, Youth and
Commercialism
Freechild Youth Media Center Most youth
activism to undo the influence of commercialism on young people and society in
general happens in the realm of "Youth-Led Media". Many organizations
and programs in this area actively engage young people in examining and
challenging the effects of commercialism and mainstream media on young people.
Our YMC includes dozens of youth media organizations and a collection of
resources for youth to create their own media.
Shaping Youth A nonprofit concerned with
media and marketing’s impact on kids. We have NO political, religious, or
censorship agenda. Our focus is to shift harmful messages in a more positive
direction with the help of industry insiders. Their website is an interesting
blog with commentary on youth and media.
Children Now A leading national public
policy organization working to ensure children have a healthy and diverse media
environment. Children Now co-chairs the Children's Media Policy Coalition, a
broad group of public health, research and child advocacy organizations,
including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological
Association and the National PTA.
Q:
What do you think about young people,
commercialism and social change?
Is it good to live a commercial cities?
Are the young people buying more stuff
today?
What factors influence your buying
decision?
Discussing online shopping.
How to from a good shopping behavior?
What do you think of the public policy in Taiwan?
How the internet has changed buying and selling
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