But an ad that came up in 102.1 KDFC FM a couple of days back took me by surprise... It was an advertisement given by a funeral agency where you pre-pay for your funeral and decide how your funeral should be conducted. It also added, 'don't depend on anyone and be unsure of your final sendoff'... Business mind is good and that is what made the British explore the world and control all the way from west to the east. But is this an acceptable level of commercialization? I seriously doubt it.
When a human being is being forced to accept loneliness and death; and in the name of independence and liberty if everyone tends to be a self-centered individual (without even the 'Colgate circle'), of what good is all the wealth and prosperity? An Indian laborer who works 12 hrs a day toiling and sweating all along has a basic assurance that there is a family to call his own, there are people who care for him and he is an integral part of the society. To me the second option is way better than minting money and rolling over it all alone shedding tears (I heard Michael Jackson does it)!
To make a long story short, India might not have the infrastructure, online marketing might not be as good, tourism is yet to be developed better but the bottomline is you are not alone there! To me that matters more than anything else in the material world...
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But the situation here is changing very rapidly...parents who are left alone is increasing day by day...though the son/daughter sends money every month in most of the cases, that's definitely not what the parents want from their kids...
already many banks in India have started monthly income scheme based on some asset for the aged ones...and the scheme you mentioned might reach India soon if our younger generation doesn't understand the importance of having parents with them...
idellam onsite poitu vandavanga\onsite la irukuravanga pesa koodathu....the inequalities in the onsite oppurtunities drives mad for those who have not been there !!!!!
athanaala, intha thanimai\kaasai vida makkal mukiyam maadiri eera vengaya dialogue ketta kaduputhaan varuthu !!!!!
kochikaada maapla, VISA innum kidaikka maatengudu , en PM\SPM a pottu thalra alavukku kolai veriya irukken !!!!!may be anga vandu 1 yr stay panni, konjam kaasu sethuttu nee sonna dialogue adichaalum adippen !!!!!
purely personal opinion !!!! nee mattum reply comment pannu !!!!
Ha ha ha [:)] Srini... I'm just attempting to write down the differences I observed in a comparative sense. Needs drive ppl crazy and that's why I'm onsite and you are furious at my post [:D]
I think in a way you have reiterated something that is at the heart of industrialized culture, although reiterated in a capitalist frame; namely the forcing of Graveyards out of city centers. The places of burial in the construction of the city are pushed further to the edge, and somehow I see this particular form of "monetization of dying" as another example of it. Instead of having the understanding about death being community and family based, it is based solely on the wallet...
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