The Modern Afterlife

Eating pizza and playing video games? Sounds like Heaven to me. According to Buddhist tradition, loved ones are expected to burn offerings that travel to the afterlife to be used by the deceased. So Asia Obscura took camera in hand to snap photos of paper facsimiles of modern luxuries sold in stores in Melaka. Now Gramps can smoke cigarettes while Gram does laundry...forever.

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