On July 16th (Saturday) AW stayed overnight at the hospice.
On July 17th (Sunday) 5:50 am, AW called my mom to inform her that 7E's breath was getting tight & heavy for 2 minutes & then 7E passed away peacefully. We all rushed to the hospice & prayed for 7E until 10 am. Since they are Buddhist, they believe that they should not touch the body for at least 4 to 6 hours. The hospice was ok with that request and did touch the body for 4 hours. So at 10 am, the nurses started cleaning 7E & then put on clothing socks & shoes.
Mom already prepared all the clothing. 7E told her a week ago what she wanted to wear: new pair of socks & new scarf that she just bought from HK.
AW called "A Basic Cremation Co" to pick up 7E's body at 10:30 am.
The Cheng family left the hospice at 10:20 am because they did not want to see 7E being shipped away. Mom gave a cheque of $1000 to the hospice as a donation on behalf of 7E, as per her request.
AW signed a contract with the cremation co. They will do the cremation after 7 days as per their request. Legally they cannot do the work until 2 days after death. So we have to pay extra for storage, i.e. $20 per day for 5 days.
7E did not want any viewing or ceremony and did not want anyone to have the ashes back. It is illegal to scatter ashes on land ourselves. So the company will scatter the ashes at sea with extra charges. They only do that twice a year so it will be done around Sept. 2016
Mom requested 5 copies of death certificates @$27. They will give the certificates to AW in about two weeks when they collect the fees of total approx $1500.
7E wanted everything simple and economical.
She did not want us to tell that many people.
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