That's the vow taken by mostly Christian or Western brides and bridegrooms when they tie the nuptial knots. Since I first started reading English newspapers, I became fascinated by the obituary columns. Obituary comes from the Latin word obit meaning death. An obituary is a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
A normal obituary in a Malaysian English newspaper include the photo of the deceased with the title, well, Obituary or for a Moslem al-fatihah. Below it there is usually a portrait of the deceased. Then come the announcement saying that the deceased passes away peacefully at such and such time. The part that interests me most is the list after the phrase ...leaving behind:-!
Some people just mention a short list of names, while others leave a full list of full names with the titles and awards mentioned. Still a few add the names of their offsprings' worthy employers or professions in the list. What is of main interest to me is to decipher the type of families of the deceaseds. Some left behind a myriad of descendants of the same race, while quite a number have descendants marrying into other races. I find it interesting to read the list of persons left behind by someone that contains names from various races. Some have Malays, Chinese or Indians, Norwegians, German in their family. More so their descendants are sometimes of different religions. Then I would try to match the names of their grandchidren's names with their respective children. This is easy if say a Chinese leaves behind mostly daughters or if there are mat sallehs or Moslem
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