Rest assured, living next door to a cemetery is very peaceful


Rest in peace: Lee (right) and her nephew Wen Chuan walking past the tombs when met at her house among the cemeteries at Mount Erskine in George Town.

GEORGE TOWN: With the Hungry Ghost Festival coming up later this month, the spotlight falls once again on families living within the cemetery grounds who have built their lives among the dead for several decades.

A resident, who wished to be known as Lee, 57, said she and her brother’s family have been living next to a cemetery at Mount Erskine for the past 30 years.

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