Entrepreneurial undertaker takes the hassle out of dealing with death

Close your eyes,” Yos Bunleng instructs. “Now imagine that your relative has just died. What are the problems?” Bunleng’s sales pitch, delivered in a gadget-filled Tuol Kork office earlier this week, is effective. Death in Cambodia creates logistical problems that those affected are ill-equipped to deal with: mourning rituals are elaborate, and require a coffin, musicians and a fully decorated marquee to be delivered on the same day as the death. “I see a lot of difficulties with funeral management in this country,” said Bunleng, an energetic man in his late 20s, who records all his interviews on a tripod-mounted DSLR, and whose office is wallpapered with marketing-strategy flowcharts.

Bunleng said it took him four years of research to come up with his business venture: memorial planning that streamlines the complexity of funeral arrangements by putting it all in the hands of a single organiser – himself. Morodok Memorial Planning, the company he set up last year, has the potential to furnish grieving families with everything from a photographer to the embalming chemicals needed to inject into the deceased.

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