Grieving Parents of Malaysian Couple Want To Push Through Late Children’s Unfulfilled Plan
PARENTS OF MALAYSIAN COUPLE – The parents of Yang Jingshan and Li wed their late children who died amid having wedding plans.
Countless people believe that there is nothing compared to the pain of burying your own children. It is an acceptable reality that in most cases or if age is the basis, parents should go first than the children but this does not usually happen and the parents are left with broken hearts that always long for the presence of their children.
Last month, a Malaysian couple died leaving their parents in deep grief. Yang Jingshan and Li who were together for three (3) years lost their lives to a car crash.
Based on an article on South Morning China Post which cited the information from China Press, the car that the couple was riding in overturned. They were taking the road in Perak in Northwestern Malaysia then when the accident happened.
Neither Yang Jingshan nor Li survived the car accident. Yang is a 31-year-old international referee for the Malaysia Dragon and Lion Dance Sports Association while Li is a 32-year-old employee of a food processing factory in Malaysia.
Citing the details from the Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper, Yang had a plan of proposing for marriage to Li in Thailand in June. They were set to celebrate his birthday in Bangkok and he planned to asked for her hand in marriage but it did not anymore happen due to the accident.
The parents of the Malaysian couple wants them to be together even in the afterlife. They held a wedding for the late couple to push through with the unfulfilled plan of the couple. They made wedding photos for the pair.
Wedding deceased people was part of the Chinese tradition but it is already banned by the government although, based on the article, it is still existent in the remote regions. Chinese individuals performed it when a couple died before their engagement or after their engagement. There were also cases when parents look for a match of their deceased child in the belief that they won’t be alone in the afterlife.
For the wedding of the deceased, the bodies of the deceased are exhumed and buried together in a new grave. This now-banned Chinese tradition also existed in other East Asian countries like North Korea and Japan.