How about asking National Environment Agency via their website
http://www.nea.gov.sg, well, if you
still can choose how you want to die i.e. you have a choice, these
days the National Organ Transplant Unit can care less about whether
columbaria are privatised, tradition, Chinese, cultural or
contemporary, if you go and ask any Singaporean kid that is yet 21,
they will tell you that unless you opt out, if you die prematurely
they will harvest your organs and give it to somebody so that we
can keep our hospitals, in other words before you die the Singapore
Government already wants to recycle your corpse. When I was working
with Health Promotion Board I had a user that calls in and asks
questions more interesting than yours, he asks, where can I donate
my corpse? I gotta reply, go National University of Singapore.
These days if you stay at any structured government hospital,
they put at the wards a nice flyer that allows you to donate your
entire corpse - last time they wanted your blood, they still want
your blood today - now they want your whole corpse because they can
cut it up and teach a few younger kids who are going through
medical school.
NUS has one, NTU started one also. They need Singaporean
corpses, sooner or later they will tell you we are short of
columbaria because our resources are so scarce, even corpses are
important.
:) So if anybody wants to be cremated properly and have a proper
urn and resting place, have you asked NEA because if they say you
must work till 67 as the retirement age gets raised, you are
probably still too young to die naturally.
Don't think so much about death, if you have no use for your
ashes, the future Singaporeans have even less use for yours.
If you need to think about death, make more babies instead,
while no guarantee, at least you keep the young folks busy enough
so that you can die in peace one night without worrying about your
own casket, let the kids worry about your death, there's no
need to exhaust yourself worrying about your own death because
I guarantee you, you confirm will die, and nobody needs your ashes,
much lesser your urn.
*Besides, there are market dynamics.*
