The youth Singapore passion profession care of the dead

The youth Singapore passion profession care of the dead

2009, Elson this pinwheel design as a young rare company being funeral in Singapore, but 8 years later, the number of people under 30 years old working in the business of your significant rise.
Company organization burial Elson established when he was 24 years old and current, 32-year-old boy is still sticking to the job that these people in the field called "industry take care of the dead".

Companies like of Elson provide services funeral, cremated, buried and memorial, sell products from the coffin, the Tombstone in the rocks until new offerings. People who work in the industry is mainly the elderly, inherit business of family or no choice occupation.
However, the situation days a change, when their point of social about death more gentle and the job market becomes severe. Mortuary industry Singapore as "new blood new" when there are of young entrepreneurs like Elson.


The number of people under 30 years old looking for work in the funeral home has skyrocketed, people in the field. They recruited in many position as operating funeral, embalming or pick up the coffin, salaries with equivalent at other companies for the staff new licensed.

Elson received 1-2 job from anyone under the age of 30 per month.

The two companies service funeral other age life of tens of thousands of years also said in the last couple of years, they get two job from the candidates kids every month. Five years ago, there are almost no candidate how in the age of.

According to Jenny hand, 31-year-old, director and secretary assistant of the two companies funeral, world young people are less and less superstitious and curious more taking care of the deceased. She inherited the company his father founded in 2014 and has implemented a program to train and keep the staff kids potential.

"Look after for the dead is a critical services. It is good if they can see it in aspects professional," she said.


Preserve brand of family

Like most entrepreneurs other kids, Alex Atrophied, 29-year-old, established a Facebook page to business but instead of broadcast products technology, you sell and distributed gold code, flavor and other kinds of new offerings other Chinese.

Atrophied boss is life third of the Kah Hiang Trading, a store by my grandfather open more than 50 years ago. You have a degree in management business of the University of Manchester, you, once auditor health and not think will step into the family till 3 years ago, when I get your own weak.
"There many brands had to closed because no one heir. I do not want to brand of my grandfather disappearing like that," Atrophied said.

The support of my brother and my mom, since assume the job operating store last year, Atrophied embraced the system as new management goods through the computer.

Sometimes I was customer doubt for a young boy and sometimes feel lonely because most of my customers and employees are larger tens of age. Force that can atrophy continued to my that is happiness to see my parents rest and enjoy life.

Give up the dream do pilot

When Lyndon Leong, 25-year-old, decided to push ourselves into industry funeral, your parents disagree and paste announced recruited soldiers from the army on bedroom door of my son.

Graduated industry engineer, Leong dismiss dream was originally to be a pilot after consider to be regularly away from her family.


Admit that operating funeral is not a passion profession popular with a young age 22 but Leong still decided to follow your options and joined a company funeral.

In a year and a half i had organized a lot of funeral, processing jobs logistics like putting them and prepare the coffin. At a angle of certain, your work similar an event planner.

"It is not only held a funeral that is creating a safe environment for my family to share their sorrow and spend some time with their loved ones," he said.

Parents and people you ever doubt about choice of Leong gradually will support you.

"I make them see clearly your opinion. You need to have people look after when you die. The ob gave you walk into this world, why not have experts give you leave?", you say.



22-year-old and 500 bodies


Nicole this pinwheel design, 22-year-old, is employee embalming youngest Singapore. You work at the company your son. Elson


Though it was in the process training and have not been licensed official, you have handled more than 500 bodies under the supervision of a professional experience in the last three years.

Very difficult circumstances most which she had to face is when a colleague drivers funeral Lim Swee Huat, death of a heart attack at the age 62 in 2015. In the afternoon before she died, he still drive you go to lunch and that night, he was on the mummy case.

That was the process to preserve bodies by chemicals in the purposes different. For the funeral, the deceased needs to be how to look like alive.

Sister-in-law Sarah Ang, 32-year-old, who was with expertise from the Institute technology Wellington, New Zealand, who has instructions for you skills like blood drawn from bodies and makes you become my favorite this job.

Parents of Nicole also owns a funeral home alone. She hopes the opportunity to New Zealand to get by about embalming.

However, properties profession, Nicole not many friends. People superstitious do not like talking about your job. "But I will try to share our own passion with them," she said.




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