Taoist Funeral Services · Singapore · Over two decades
If your loved one has just passed away, I am really sorry for your loss. Tell me where your loved one is and which dialect your family keeps, and I will be with you as soon as possible.
Jeremy NgI answer this phone myself, at any hour. This is what I do, and I have done it for two decades.
If it has just happened
If your loved one has just passed, this is where to start. There are only three things to do immediately, and the last one is to call me.
If you are not sure which one applies, please call me and I will provide you with guidance.
A Taoist altar set up before the family arrives.
Before I arrive
Stay beside your loved one and keep the room quiet. You do not need to do anything else yet, and I will be on my way while you wait.
This part is for the family to do. I will quietly get everything else ready while you sit with your loved one.
Two exceptions. If your loved one passed away in hospital, the mortuary has its own process to follow. If the police are involved, your loved one goes for the autopsy first. Neither of those can be delayed.
Call me now. I will arrange the Taoist priest and the altar, and stay on the line with you until you know what happens next.
Call about the priestAfter you call
In the first four hours, none of this is yours to worry about. Most of what happens next is paperwork and logistics, and that part is mine. I will only come to you for the things that are yours to decide, and I will explain each one before I ask.
Anywhere in Singapore, any hour. I bring the paperwork to you.
ICA certifies online. I will show you how to download the certificate.
My team collects your loved one and sees to the bathing and dressing.
Void deck permit or parlour hall, I apply on your behalf.
In the dialect your family keeps, for every night of the wake.
Cross, backdrop, altar, seating and sound, standing within a few hours.
The priest leading the rites at the wake.
Where the service is held
Most families keep three. I will explain each one before it happens, so nobody is left wondering what they are watching.
Tell me what your family has always done and we will do that. If nobody remembers the details, that is alright, and I will guide you through the usual ones.
Three, five or seven
Three, five or seven. It is your family's call, and two things usually settle it.
Three days is the most common. Five gives relatives abroad time to reach Singapore. Seven is unusual now, and I would only suggest it if your family particularly wants it.
Not sure how many days? Tell me who is coming and from where, and I will work it out with you on the phone in two minutes.
Where we hold it
Wherever suits your family. I apply for whichever you pick, and the setup looks the same either way.
I can tell you which one fits your block in one phone call. I have run wakes at void decks and parlours all over the island, and I will know yours.
Paper offerings, prepared for the final night.
Arranging the priest
Priests who chant in whatever dialect your family prays in, for each night of the wake and the funeral morning.
If your usual priest cannot come on the morning you need, tell me and I will find one who keeps the same rites. Nobody is left without one.
From the first night to the last day
So you know what is coming before it arrives. I will walk beside you at every one of these.
My team bathes and dresses your loved one, and lays your loved one in the casket.
The cross, the backdrop and the seating go up before your relatives arrive.
Chanting in the evening, when most people can get there after work.
If your family keeps the nights differently, tell me how and we will do it your way.
The final service, then the casket is closed, and we set off together.
You will not have to figure out where to stand. I will go round quietly and let each person know where to be and when to move.
A last chanting at the crematorium, then the committal.
You do not have to hold all of this in your head. I will tell you what is happening next, each time, and I will be standing there when it does.
The burning of the offerings on the final night.
For the people coming
Pass this on if it helps. Most people want to come and are simply not sure what to do.
If a guest arrives in the wrong colour, it is alright. And if your family prefers alternative timing, tell me when and we will do it your way.
Our work
Every one of these is a family I have looked after. Yours will be set up with the same care.
Photographs from wakes I have arranged, shared with the families' blessing.
Jeremy, the one who will pick up.
Who you will be dealing with
Not a call centre, not a different coordinator each day. Me.
Nothing is due before the wake. You will have a written itemised quotation before anything is confirmed, with third-party costs shown separately. We settle the bill after the funeral, and no family of mine has ever been asked for money at the door.
Through every day of the wake
My team is on call 24/7 on standby
Your job during those days is to receive the people who come. Anything else, tell me and I will see to it.
If something goes wrong
Things do go wrong at wakes. That is what I am there for.
You will not be the one making those phone calls. You will hear about it after it is already sorted.
Who I am
I am Jeremy. I have run wakes at void decks and at parlours all over the island for over two decades. Some had three hundred guests. Plenty had a dozen.
I have kept the rites for Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and Hainanese families, and for families who only knew that their elders did it a certain way.
The number on this page is my handphone. It does not go to an office or a call centre. I answer it at 3am in the morning.
Cost
It is better that you can see what the costs involved are when someone passed away. Where yours sits depends entirely on what your family needs, and you decide every part of it.
Most families spend between $4,000 and $8,000, all in.
A three-day wake, casket, encoffining, setup, transport, permits and the funeral morning. If you like to know yours, call me and I will give you a figure on the phone.
Some families do not hold a wake. Perhaps your loved one asked for it that way, or the family is small, or everyone lives overseas. This is a proper funeral, quietly done, and there is nothing wrong with choosing it.
Call me and I will give you a real figure, not a range. Tell me the venue, the number of days and how many guests you expect, and I will price it while you are on the line.
No surprises
Most families add two or three of these. I would rather you saw them now than found them on a bill later.
I pass them on at cost. You would pay the same through any funeral director in Singapore.
Usually just food for the guests. The rest depends on how long you run the wake.
None of this is expected of you. I will not raise any of it unless you ask me to.
Taken together, most families end up between $4,000 and $8,000 all in, catering and the niche included.
24 hours a day
Tell me where your loved one is, and I will be with you as soon as possible. From that moment the paperwork, the permit, the priest and the hall are mine to carry, and you deal with me alone, from your first call to the last day.
You do not need to have decided anything before you ring.
8133 0959I answer it myself, 24 hours a day.
