Former Pahang Ruler Sultan Ahmad Shah dies at age 88
KUANTAN: Pahang’s Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah died at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur at 8.50am yesterday.
The sad news was announced by Pahang Mentri Bes...
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IGB's Tan Chin Nam passes away
Categories Corporate
PETALING JAYA: Property tycoon Datuk Tan Chin Nam (pic), 92, the co-founder of IGB Corp Bhd and Tan & Tan Developments Bhd, passed away yesterday.
Chin Nam started from humble beginnings as a s...
Farewell, charming Connie
PETALING JAYA: Constance Haslam’s soothing voice on the airwaves in the 1970s to 1990s is something that many local radio listeners remember fondly.
For over two decades, she was a household name...
Malaysian contemporary artist Ise dies aged 46
Contemporary artist Roslisham Ismail, or better known as Ise, whose artistic practice spanned social relations across generations, cultures, class and geography, died of health complications at Kuala ...
IOI Group executive chairman dies
PETALING JAYA: IOI Group executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng has died.
He was 79.
A family member said that details of the funeral arrangements would be made known today.
According to ...
Remembering Historian Khoo Kay Kim.
PETALING JAYA: Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim, widely regarded as Malaysia's national historian, died of lung failure on Tuesday morning (May 28) at the University Malaya Medical Centre a...
Legendary consumer rights pioneer S.M. Mohamed Idris of CAP dies
GEORGE TOWN: Malaysia's iconic consumer advocate S.M. Mohamed Idris has died of heart failure. He was 93.
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) president passed away peacefully at 4.45pm at th...
Architect I.M. Pei dies at age 102 - New York Times
(Reuters) - I.M. Pei, whose modern designs and high-profile projects made him one of the best-known and most prolific architects of the 20th century, has died, the New York Times reported on Thursday....
’Godfather’ of Hong Kong film dies
Categories Corporate
Hong Kong: Raymond Chow, the film producer credited with bringing kung fu legend Bruce Lee to the silver screen and widely regarded as the “godfather” of Hong Kong cinema, has died aged 91, report...
Malaysians pay homage to the 'father of all superheroes'
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians joined the world in paying tribute to Stan Lee, the iconic figure responsible for creating some of the most beloved superheroes around.
The American comic book cr...
SEMENYIH MEMORIAL HILLS
Categories Burial Services, Funeral Parlour, Memorial Parks
Semenyih Memorial Hills Bhd (“SMH”) is a provider of integrated bereavement case services in Malaysia. It owns and operates a premier memorial park , Semenyih Memorial Hills or Jing An (静安...
DYNAMIC COUNSELLING CENTRE
Categories Counseling
Address : D-11-28, Avenue D Vogue, 3A Jalan 13/2, 46200 Petaling Jaya. ( 15 minutes away from UMMC, The School Jaya One, Jaya 33 )
Opening hour - by appointment on weekday and weekend.
Counselli...
WHITE ROSE FLORIST
Categories Florists
White Rose Florist has been in operation since 2005 in SS15, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya. We specialized in fresh flowers for all occasions such as hand bouquet, basket arrangement, fruits & flow...
NIELDELIA FLORIST & GIFTS
Categories Florists
Nieldelia Florist & Gifts is an online florist based in KL where we offers professionally designed flower bouquets for all occasions paired with outstanding customer service.
We make an impress...
LIGHTHOUSE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING CENTRE
Categories Counseling
Lighthouse - a symbol of hope, guidance and vision in a world of possibilities and challenges; lighting the way as we navigate through rough waters. Lighthouse was founded by a group of psychologists ...
Thinking about dying can spur you to live a better life
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
By DATUK DR ANDREW MOHANRAJ
Queen Elizabeth II’s death was reported to have been communicated internally in one coded phrase: “London Bridge is down.”
It is said that from that momen...
Ex-envoy, G25 member Redzuan Kushairi passes away
Categories Death, Expressing Condolences, Memorial
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Datuk Redzuan Kushairi (pic), a former Malaysian ambassador to Uzbekistan and a member of the G25 group of eminent Malays, died on Friday (Feb 22). He was 69.
Redzuan d...
Saving babies was his life’s calling
Categories Death, Expressing Condolences, Virtual Memorials
DR JAPARAJ Robert Peter (JRP) was a loving husband, a caring father, a wonderful friend, a dedicated doctor, a passionate teacher and a godly soul.
But how else was Dr JRP diffe...
First ‘death festival’ in Malaysia
Categories Funeral Planning
WHEN the late Datuk Choo Ching Hwa retired from the political scene in the 1980s, two critical community functions caught his attention – ageing and death care.
About 30 years ago, he started...
Immortalised splendour at Nirvana
Categories Culture
Unlike the soil characteristics of other burial grounds, the 215-acre Nirvana Memorial Park in Klang distinguishes itself with the presence of red and yellow soils, two auspicious colours symbolising ...
Dealing with the death of a loved one
Categories Grief Management, How to
Soraya did not say much when her mother passed away. During the funeral, relatives and strangers came to hug her but there was little response from her.
In the weeks that followed, Soraya's...
Helping children cope with loss
Categories Grief Management, How to
The loss I am referring to may be through death, divorce or abandonment.
The manifestations of grief symptoms in children are not always the same as those in adults. And often children become forgo...
Surviving the holidays
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
When we have lost a loved one, the festive holidays are often a time we would rather skip as so many things will remind us that someone is missing and that, in turn, hurts. We may feel like just going...
Support for the dying
Categories Bereavement, Funeral Planning, Will Writing
If the patient whom we care for dies unexpectedly, we are devastated. Openly discussing the possibility of death is less emotionally difficult when the critically sick person is still able to talk abo...
Reaching out to bereaved children
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
When we reach out to bereaved parents, we must not neglect their children. Bereaved children also mourn and they need our attention to help them work through their grief.
Infants of less than two y...
Moving on in grief
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
Bereavement refers to the loss of a loved one while grief is our reaction to that loss. Grief is intense anguish or acute sorrow which can be so painful that the grieving person often looks for ways t...
Peace after bereavement
Categories Bereavement, Funeral, Funeral Etiquette
The tension is palpable in the lift that Datuk Freddy Chan and I share with a grief-stricken Chinese family at the Nirvana Memorial Center in Sungai Besi, in Kuala Lumpur. The household head – a mi...
Life of parents after the death of a child
Categories Bereavement
Spouses who have lost their partners are widows and widowers. Children who have lost their parents are orphans. But there is no term to describe a parent who has lost a child.
Locally, some of thos...
Looking for consolation
Categories Bereavement
No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...
Grief: How to go on after your loved one dies
Categories Grief Management
It has been four years since his wife died. On a glass table in their home, there are two framed photographs of her: one taken when she was a young woman, the other when she had matured into middle ag...
When writing your will, make sure your wishes are known
Categories Will Writing
Housewife K.G. Lim, 61, was devastated when her husband passed away after a heart attack in 2005. When she learnt that he died intestate, Lim felt her world had crumbled.
“As I tried to make sens...
How to cope with grief
Categories Grief Management
With a strong support system, the grieving can learn to live again.
ESTHER would have turned eight this year. It is not hard to imagine her, pretty as a princess, in a pink ballet costume, with her...
Gift wrapped for return to maker
FUNERALS are not a good topic at a birthday party. But as it turned out, it was the subject of one of the most deeply affecting conversations I’ve had in a long time.
It was also entirely appropr...
Final farewell
A look at the rituals and rites of different communities as they prepare to send off family members who have passed on. And even in death, there is no forgetting our loved ones as seen in the annual Q...
Healing tears
Categories Grief Management
IT IS perfectly normal to grieve – not just the loss of a loved one, but also the loss of a relationship, object of value or health.
“Grief is a normal response and it’s a process, not an eve...