Quite odd, there are 4 funerals around my alleyway just in the last week. Quite odd, is this normal for August? I was in the US parts of last August so it is hard for me to tell.
I do notice that there are many funerals right before Tet as well.
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By kevmille
Quite odd, there are 4 funerals around my alleyway just in the last week. Quite odd, is this normal for August? I was in the US parts of last August so it is hard for me to tell.
I do notice that there are many funerals right before Tet as well.
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | ||||||
Haha, I doubt that people decide to die together in that month ;p. Must be a coincident.
We in Vietnam say that when the weather cools down (rainy season, cool weather around Tet) many old people ‘go’.
@Tuan: I hope so 🙂
@Lan: Makes sense. Strange though, the cool season to me is still hot 🙂
Last week there were 14 Vietnamese funerals, 5-6 funerals at the same time in some parishes!
Please pray for the victims and their families
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5935543.html
look on left for more stories on this tragedy
I heard about the tragedy. So sad that it never made the news here in Vietnam 🙁
I think because of their faith, catholic, the gov. blocks it???
Nope, it was just not in the English news site. My friends said they heard about it in the Vietnamese news sites. Vietnam is open to religion, has been since I arrived here in 2004.
hmm not from what I heard but then again I dont live there =p
I would say its not totally free, I’ve read up north in Hanoi there were protests over confiscated church property currently.