Update: Uncle Nuamthong’s body to be kept for 100 Days after his death

The body of Uncle Nuamthong Praivan will be kept for 100 days at Bua Kwan Temple in Nonthaburi, a source who spoke to his wife said in an e-mail circulating in an anti-coup mailing group. After the seventh night of Buddhist chanting ceremony at the temple, the merit-making ceremony will take place on Thursday at 10.30am, his wife Bunchu told our source. Then, Uncle Nuamthong’s body will be temporarily laid at the temple’s cemetery. His family will conduct the cremation ritual for him on the 100th day after his death. At first, the plan was to cremate his body on Thursday at 5.00pm but his wife changed her mind because she could not simply endure the thought of losing him forever. “It would be too painful for me to cremate his body now,” she told the source.

On the fifth day of his funeral on Monday, less than 30 people attended the Buddhist chanting ceremony, a sharp contrast to the scenes from the previous days of funeral in which over 200 people had come to attend the funeral each day. National Human Rights Commissioner Jaran Ditapichai, Friends of the 1997 Constitution, and Democratic Union of Thailand will co-host the funeral on Tuesday.