EPITAPH FOUNDATION
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:34 am
About Our Foundation:
EPITAPH FOUNDATION is a Singapore based non-profit online free public archive service for all Singaporean Citizens and Permanent Residents who wish to declare and register their faith, religious affiliation, death and funeral wishes to be addressed to their relatives, religious organisations and/or their friends.
At times, it is not easy for your love ones, relatives or close friends to bring up certain issue with you not matter how important these issue are, especially religious belief, funeral arrangement, and burial preference are often taboo topics.
To make thing easy for them, and to dispel doubt and reduce conflict and uneasiness, we recommend you register with EPITAPH FOUNDATION your religious belief, your funeral and dying wishes.
Benefits of registering with us:
1. It is a free service.
2. Your religious view and other wishes pertaining to your final passage will be archived as a public record.
3. Our registrar will function as your witness and help you in the registration process.
4. Your relatives and friends will know of your wishes and desire.
5. Your record will help to minimize conflict and confusion.
In case you have a change of heart on certain issue, you can always come back to us for a free amendment and update.
Our Objectives:
• To honour and uphold the dignity and integrity of each individual's belief and faith
• To promote inter-religious harmony and understanding through mutual tolerance and respect
• To promote filial piety and unity in family.
Our Beliefs:
• We believe in inter-religious harmony, a major component of world peace, which can only be achieved through mutual respect and tolerance of others' diverse beliefs.
• We believe in the freedom to choose one's religion, through sincerity in belief and understanding and in the absence of brainwashing, spiritual coercion and other forms of unethical conversion.
• We believe in the importance of having individual beliefs in determining what is wrong and what is right within their chosen school of faith and being able to advocate for their changes.
• We believe that there is more common ground in most religions than differences and that the test for true spirituality is the ability to resonate with the same and de-amplify the differences.
• We believe that filial piety does not only extend to taking care of our parents and elderly but also to respect their faith and spiritual habits.
Our observation:
• It has come to our knowledge that many people, when succumbed to illness and approaching mortality, were not supported spiritually by people closest to him/her, and in some case, coerced into accepting a different faith than the one he has been practicing or believing in all his/her life.
• It has come to our knowledge that the perpetrator of these practices are often family members who are close to the dying and they acted with the help of their religious group who; often than not, subscribe to a belief system that is fundamental and medieval.
• It saddens us that some of these individuals, in addition to the suffering of parting with their loved ones and undergoing physical pain in the dying process, have to experience this unnecessary trauma of denouncing their lifelong belief, and to be sent off likewise, so as to satisfy the spiritual arrogance of those closest to them.
Our Roles:
Epitaph Foundation archives for the purpose of recording cases of unethical conversion through interviewing those who are witnesses to such events. We work toward legislation that warrant acts such as unethical conversion as a punishable offense in Singapore's court of law.
For more information regarding EPITAPH FOUNDATION, please visit us at:
http://www.epitaph.sg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
EPITAPH FOUNDATION is a Singapore based non-profit online free public archive service for all Singaporean Citizens and Permanent Residents who wish to declare and register their faith, religious affiliation, death and funeral wishes to be addressed to their relatives, religious organisations and/or their friends.
At times, it is not easy for your love ones, relatives or close friends to bring up certain issue with you not matter how important these issue are, especially religious belief, funeral arrangement, and burial preference are often taboo topics.
To make thing easy for them, and to dispel doubt and reduce conflict and uneasiness, we recommend you register with EPITAPH FOUNDATION your religious belief, your funeral and dying wishes.
Benefits of registering with us:
1. It is a free service.
2. Your religious view and other wishes pertaining to your final passage will be archived as a public record.
3. Our registrar will function as your witness and help you in the registration process.
4. Your relatives and friends will know of your wishes and desire.
5. Your record will help to minimize conflict and confusion.
In case you have a change of heart on certain issue, you can always come back to us for a free amendment and update.
Our Objectives:
• To honour and uphold the dignity and integrity of each individual's belief and faith
• To promote inter-religious harmony and understanding through mutual tolerance and respect
• To promote filial piety and unity in family.
Our Beliefs:
• We believe in inter-religious harmony, a major component of world peace, which can only be achieved through mutual respect and tolerance of others' diverse beliefs.
• We believe in the freedom to choose one's religion, through sincerity in belief and understanding and in the absence of brainwashing, spiritual coercion and other forms of unethical conversion.
• We believe in the importance of having individual beliefs in determining what is wrong and what is right within their chosen school of faith and being able to advocate for their changes.
• We believe that there is more common ground in most religions than differences and that the test for true spirituality is the ability to resonate with the same and de-amplify the differences.
• We believe that filial piety does not only extend to taking care of our parents and elderly but also to respect their faith and spiritual habits.
Our observation:
• It has come to our knowledge that many people, when succumbed to illness and approaching mortality, were not supported spiritually by people closest to him/her, and in some case, coerced into accepting a different faith than the one he has been practicing or believing in all his/her life.
• It has come to our knowledge that the perpetrator of these practices are often family members who are close to the dying and they acted with the help of their religious group who; often than not, subscribe to a belief system that is fundamental and medieval.
• It saddens us that some of these individuals, in addition to the suffering of parting with their loved ones and undergoing physical pain in the dying process, have to experience this unnecessary trauma of denouncing their lifelong belief, and to be sent off likewise, so as to satisfy the spiritual arrogance of those closest to them.
Our Roles:
Epitaph Foundation archives for the purpose of recording cases of unethical conversion through interviewing those who are witnesses to such events. We work toward legislation that warrant acts such as unethical conversion as a punishable offense in Singapore's court of law.
For more information regarding EPITAPH FOUNDATION, please visit us at:
http://www.epitaph.sg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;