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Another mortician agrees to talk in more detail, but asks to remain anonymous because he's worried that he "might not live to see tomorrow's sunrise." He is a man of imposing girth, dressed in a silk shirt printed with fierce-looking dragons. His office is three flights up...
On a recent afternoon at Kao-hsiung's municipal graveyard, six or seven separate processions?each towing a musical band hired from one of the city's funeral companies?are vying for space at the crematorium. The musicians occasionally squeak out a desultory tune, unrecognizable over the noise from the...
Not all of Taiwan's morticians are crooked. And police say there is no conclusive proof that any of them have connections to Taiwan's largest organized crime gangs. But a walk down the Taipei street where the ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located...
Taiwan's funeral strippers get rave reviews. But Taiwanese complain that most of the services offered by the island's morticians are downright shoddy. The average price for a memorial service is $12,000, compared with $5,000 in the U.S.
Suspicions that some of Taiwan's undertakers are not just second-rate gangsters, but members of the island's biggest and most notorious triad gangs, surfaced around 15 years ago when funeral companies began selling?at wholesale prices?the services of exotic dancers from clubs thought to be owned by...