What this site is for
A Singapore guide written from lived experience: what to prepare, what happens near death, what to do in the first day, how funerals work, and what follows after.
Last Days is meant to be a single place for the preparations that come with this stage of life. The will, the CPF nomination, the funeral choices, the paperwork that follows a death.
Sometimes death comes without warning. A phone call at 4am, a sudden hospital admission, a parent who declines faster than anyone expected. In that state you do not have the time, attention, or mood to piece things together from agency pages, forum threads, and half-remembered things people once said. I set up this site in the hope that it helps people through that process.
What it covers
Five sections follow the order things tend to happen. Before covers wills, CPF nominations, advance care planning, and the conversations families put off. The dying process describes what the body does over the last weeks, days, and hours. The first 24 hours walks through certifying the death, registering it at ICA, and calling an undertaker. The funeral section covers wake length, casket choices, religious rites across the traditions practised in Singapore, and burial or columbarium options. After the funeral covers probate, CPF claims, HDB transfer, and the slower work of grief.
Singapore-specific
This is written from the reality of dealing with a death here. The questions are local: what ICA needs, how CPF nomination works, when an undertaker is called, what NEA says about cremation or burial, how HDB and banks handle a death, and how different religious rites fit into Singapore procedures. I keep the guide close to official sources because that is what families need when decisions are already heavy.
Author
I wrote Last Days because, when my parent was dying and after the death, I was inexperienced and lost. Helpful nurses, doctors, and relatives gave me enough guidance to navigate the next step, then the next. This site is my attempt to write down that kind of guidance for other families in Singapore, in one place. I am not a doctor, lawyer, religious officiant, or funeral director, so I keep the pages close to official sources and practical experience. If something is wrong, tell me on the contact page and I will fix it.