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Singaporeans get wired up from cradle to grave

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If there is one country in Asia more feverish about this whole dotcom mania than Tom.com-crazy Hong Kong, it is Singapore.

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The Singaporeans are so wired up even their dead are going hi-tech. The funeral business in Singapore is going the dotcom route, too.

One innovative company is offering on-line services which include booking places for cremation urns through its Web site.

In land-scarce Singapore, finding the final resting space for your ancestor's ashes is as difficult apparently as registering your child for Primary One school or getting in line at McDonald's for Hello Kitty giveaways.

But wait a minute, this story gets better.

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This company is building a hall called the Ji Le Memorial Park (literally translated, it means Lucky-Happy Memorial Park) with 80,000 niches for urns.

These niches will be priced between US$2,940 and US$5,880 each.

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