PETALING JAYA: When the elderly or abandoned die, and nobody comes forward to claim their bodies, Kathiravan Vadivelu makes it his responsibility to give them their final rites.
“Everyone deserves to be sent off in dignity,” said the 42-year-old undertaker from Sungai Petani, Kedah, who has been doing the service for more than 10 years. His family has become accustomed to receiving phone calls in the wee hours of the morning from hospitals and old folks homes asking for his help to perform the final rites.
When he started as an undertaker 20 years ago, Kathiravan became aware of many people who died alone at old folks homes and hospitals with no family or loved ones to claim their bodies.
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