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OK, there was a slight misunderstanding on my part originally, it was a conversation late im the evening. There are only three teeth and they were given to to my wife by her mother shortly before she died.

Ubonwan went out yesterday and showed me that they had now been put in to small silver (stainless steel?) cases with window from and back and that she had decided the 3rd one would be given to one of her brothers as I was not a direct descendant from mother. Instead she gave me a Buddha amulet in a similar larger case.

David

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I don't know about that, but I have some 'lucky satang' which were in my father-in-laws pants pocket when he was cremated. I sometimes wonder if they purposefully put coins in his pocket before the cremation so there would be plenty to divide among the children.
They were given to me with no mention of a donation.

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The other evening my wife and I were talking about her mother whom died last month and she took out of her handbag a knotted piece of white cloth and said that it contained some of her mother's teeth. Apparently they had been removed and shared out between her children for Good Luck.

Ubonwan has 3 of them, she said one for her and one for our son and if I wanted I could have the remaining one if I paid for it to be put in gold at a Temple. I didn't know what to say so just said 'maybe' and it was left at that.

Does anyone else know anything about sharing the teeth of the deceased among their children?

David

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"Death is not viewed with the great outpouring of grief common to Western society; it is viewed as the end of one life and as the beginning of another life that one hopes will be better. Buddhist Khmer usually are cremated, and their ashes are deposited in a stupa in the temple compound. A corpse is washed, dressed, and placed in a coffin, which may be decorated with flowers and with a photograph of the deceased. White pennant-shaped flags, called "white crocodile flags," outside a house indicate that someone in that household has died. A funeral procession consisting of an achar, Buddhist monks, members of the family, and other mourners accompanies the coffin to the crematorium. The spouse and the children show mourning by shaving their heads and by wearing white clothing. Relics such as teeth or pieces of bone are prized by the survivors, and they are often worn on gold chains as amulets."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Cambodia

More if I find it, David.

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The other evening my wife and I were talking about her mother whom died last month and she took out of her handbag a knotted piece of white cloth and said that it contained some of her mother's teeth. Apparently they had been removed and shared out between her children for Good Luck.

Ubonwan has 3 of them, she said one for her and one for our son and if I wanted I could have the remaining one if I paid for it to be put in gold at a Temple. I didn't know what to say so just said 'maybe' and it was left at that.

Does anyone else know anything about sharing the teeth of the deceased among their children?

David

I know a lady who carrys one of her late mother's teeth in a small glass phial of some kind of liquid on a gold chain around her neck.