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The Supreme Patriarch has called on the National Office of Buddhism to ensure temples nationwide have the means to cremate people who have succumbed to Covid-19.

The embalmed body of alleged cannibal and child killer Si Quey, which has been on display at Siriraj’s “Museum of Death” for the past 70 years, will finally be given a proper funeral on Thursday, Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital announced on Monday (July 20).

The Phra Nakorn district in Bangkok is considering monitoring cremation activities after figuring in the list of districts with PM2.5 in the air at unsafe levels.  PM2.5 is particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. 

The cremation ceremonies for the much-revered Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho are being held within the planned budget of Bt15 million thanks to many disciples who helped to stage the event, Khon Kaen University Faculty of Medicine dean Charnchai Panthongviriyakul said on Monday.

HUNDREDS of thousand of people are expected to attend the royally sponsored cremation of the much-revered monk Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho in Khon Kaen on Tuesday, said Charnchai Panthongviriyakul, dean of medicine at Khon Kaen University.

Khon Kaen University (KKU) has asked for additional donations amounting to 200,000 rose-patterned funeral flowers, as the prepared 800,000 flowers are not enough to support the one million people expected to turn up to pay their respects to the late much-revered northeastern monk, Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho.

As police continue to investigate last week’s theft of 10 foetus corpses from a Rayong cemetery, speculation has arisen that they could be used in black magic rituals.

A funeral for a 77-year-old grandmother in Phayao’s Muang district on Sunday saw the innovative idea that, instead of the conventional flowery wreaths, 17 bicycles were presented as funeral wreaths which were then passed on to poor schoolchildren and social volunteers.

His Majesty the King on Saturday sent Privy Councillor General Surayud Chulanont to preside over the royally sponsored cremation of Lieutenant Commander Saman Gunan who died during the Tham Luang rescue operation.

Buddhist monks chant next to a pink coffin where Dollar's small body is nestled amongst flowers -- a $600 final farewell for the Shih Tzu at a Bangkok temple that administers elaborate pet funerals.

The remains of a policeman killed on duty in the deep South were cremated on Tuesday in a rite sponsored by His Majesty the King.

THE ROYAL Cremation Ground and sites around the nation were filled with sadness as the beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej was cremated yesterday after one full year of national mourning.