"Nowadays more people are willing to discuss death, make their wills and plan their funerals ahead," said Yang Kuo-chu, a professor at the Department of Life-and-Death Studies at Nanhua University.

Here, " Brahmaputra River and its four branches", that is to say, Brahmaputra and its four branches of Nian-chu River, Lhasa River, Ya-long River and Ni-yang River.