Recently Kaew, the elder sister of Neng Mengjai, immediately went to the temple after learning that her brother’s ashes were still kept in the temple’s storage room. She said in an interview that she thought her brother was still at home and wondered why no one told her earlier, but just left the ashes there. She said she would take them home herself.
“Don’t put my brother here like this; he has a mother. At first, I thought they would keep him at home because he had a house and wanted to go home. But then he told another sister to divide the ashes, and no one asked me if I wanted to divide them. So she said she asked, but no one wanted any.
I said, ‘Why didn’t you ask me? Why didn’t you ask me anything? You put him here like this—did you tell me?’ But when you called me about insurance matters, you could call me then. Why couldn’t you tell me this? I asked you when you planned to scatter the ashes and when to make merit. Tell me if you left them at the temple so I’d know. You didn’t say anything.”
“I thought my brother was at home, but they just left the ashes here. Tell me; I’ll bring them home myself. Our mother is still alive,” she said tearfully. “But I haven’t told Mother yet; she is bedridden and I’m afraid she might be shocked. I have told everyone who visits not to mention it. But if we bring the ashes home, that’s fine because Mother is downstairs and we can bring her upstairs.”
“On their side, I don’t know—they said they are afraid of ghosts. But I saw a post that was nice. What is it? They say they’re afraid of ghosts but post about sleeping together. So why can’t they bring the ashes home? Why leave them like this?”
“If they were going to keep them for 100 days, they should have told the family that the ashes would be here and that we would come to get them after 100 days. Just say something. If they want to keep them at the temple, tell us so we can put them somewhere better, not just leave them dumped like this. You don’t want to keep them properly. I just saw the pictures today. What is this? You can save money, but can’t you keep ashes?”
“Actually, the first daughter was going to come when the ashes were collected, but the mother—the first wife—was sick and couldn’t come. We asked, and she said she would do it at 7 a.m. We agreed to that because we have to look after our mother, who is sick and doesn’t know about Neng. We have to take care of her.”
“We could only attend the funeral and cremation. If it was not going to be like this, we could have taken our brother home. If they had been clear from the start about dividing the ashes, we would have divided them. I will take them to make merit myself. From now on, don’t get involved, don’t come around, don’t take care of our mother, don’t tell us you’re buying milk for her. I can buy the 60-baht milk myself. Don’t interfere and don’t come into my house.”
In addition, Kaew said that Neng once told Ball Chernyim that he wanted to buy a house to bring their mother to live with him, but his wife opposed it, fearing they would have children without a room to stay.
“Neng appeared in many people's dreams, as if wanting to say he is here. Neng was not stingy—not like someone who says, ‘My house and car, no one touches.’ When I was ill, when Mother was ill, he asked, ‘Kaew, can you drive? Take my car.’”
“Neng was not stingy. He bought a house and told Ball he wanted to bring Mother to live with him, but his wife said she was afraid if they had children, they wouldn’t have a room, and that her mother-in-law would also have to come live with them. We said, ‘Okay, better not—it would be a burden.’ He said, ‘You two live together; I’m not going to live there.’ Our brother never refused anyone or kept anyone from entering the house.” /
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