Some farewells carry a silence that’s hard to describe. When the farewell is for a baby, the emotions in the room change. Years ago in Singapore, news reports shared about a baby found alone in a supermarket staff locker, noticed only after a smell led workers to open it. The tiny corpse was placed in a cardboard box used to contain fruit and taken to Singapore General Hospital. It was a story that unsettled many, not just for what happened, but for how quietly a life had passed. Moments like th