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Former academic launches end-of-life planning services in Hong Kong

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Dr. Ng Kwai-lun, a former academic at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has established a social enterprise to offer more transparent funeral care and end-of-life planning services in Hong Kong. He identified a significant gap between available end-of-life options and what people were informed about. Ng left his university position to address this need, drawing on his experience managing embalming and promoting body donation programs. AI

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Former academic launches end-of-life planning services in Hong Kong

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Jimmy Chow ·

    It’s your funeral: former academic gives Hongkongers more end-of-life choices

    After years of teaching Hongkongers about death and end-of-life arrangements, Dr Ng Kwai-lun realised there was a gap between what people were told they could do and the services actually available to them. Determined to bridge that gap, he left a stable university career to beco…

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