Asia’s Wealthy Are Defying Taboos to Invest in the Business of Death
- Fourth-generation funeral director Ang sees the sector growing
- Attitudes toward dying are beginning to change in the region
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When Ang Ziqian was seven, his teacher asked the class to describe their parents’ jobs. The children of nurses, lawyers and policemen were applauded, but Ang’s response was met with shaming silence. Such was the lot of funeral directors.