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The happiest life is a tragicomedy: at its beautiful start, all we can do is cry; at its bleak finish, we search for laughter. The last will be first and the first don’t care where they finish anyway, laughing all the same. For some people, their funerals may hold few guests. Some of them might not care, but some of them – and many in China – once believed that the more attendees their final celebration would bring, the more respected and showered with privileges they would be in the afterlife. So, the most practical of Chinese event organizers have solved this problem in the mid-2000s: strippers at funerals. Popular and expensive, they once seemed to be the inspiration for a film called Funeral Strippers, China’s answer to Wedding Crashers. But Poley Moley at island6 is as close as it ever gets. [Pete Bradt] |
