Nearly 600 temples now offering free cremation services

[Thaiger]

Prime Minister’s Office Minister Anucha Nakasai announced today that nearly 600 temples in Thailand are offering free cremation services for people who died from Covid. The win-lose offer pertains to 62 temples in Bangkok and 124 temples near the capital. The remaining 407 temples offering free cremation services are spread throughout the country. Bangkok temples are increasingly becoming overwhelmed with Covid bodies that need to be cremated. Recently, a crematorium even partially collapsed after pressure from burning too many bodies. Anucha says that many temples are offering some of their free space to be used as field hospitals or pre-admission […]

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[gummy]

This is brilliant but there appears to be no no link as to how we can nominate people for cremation. In fact myself and a few Thai friends have over 1100 people on the list who should be eligible 

[Malc-Thai]

Quick, take the free opportunity to burn the bodys before they get counted on the daily death totals .. 

[BlueSphinx]

2 minutes ago, gummy said:

This is brilliant but there appears to be no no link as to how we can nominate people for cremation. In fact myself and a few Thai friends have over 1100 people on the list who should be eligible 

... and how did you get hold of the full ThaiGer Talk member-list?

[gummy]

Just now, BlueSphinx said:

... and how did you get hold of the full ThaiGer Talk member-list?

TVF sent it to me

[lopburi3]

593 of the more than 33,000 active temples?  So about 1.8%?