If ordination represents the initiation of a Buddhist man as he enters upon his religious life as a bhikkhu, the funeral meant to send him off to yet another life, should there be another into which he can be reborn. Women, of course, without having been bhikkhu or even extra-devout laywomen, join in dying way, with the same prospects. At your workplace, or from your domestic employees and, of course, feom your Thai friends and acquaintances, you may