World Service Each week we bring you 4 expert witnesses on spring one pressing question from the news. Just after midnight in Singapore s largest cemetery a worker is collecting bones from an open grave while family members watch making sure no fragment is left behind it s a delicate process great care is taken not to separate the soul from more remains of the body that s why the exhumation is being done at night in the glow of small red candles the dead a thought to be very sensitive tonight. Singapore s ethnic Chinese traditionally believe that the welfare of the living depends on their care for the Dead Yet $80000.00 graves are now being executed at church you can cemetery to make way for the expansion of a military air base. And Singapore s not the only Metropolis where the needs of the living crowding out the dead London New York Jerusalem Istanbul Sydney Vancouver Hong Kong big cities where burial was the traditional way to dispose of human remains are all running out of room to