this kind of clothing call " hell clothes" not chinese new year dress.....many people mistaken as chinese wear becos of the cloth button.
you people are right....hell clothes is wore before burial or cremation becos the two hell brothers can recognise them and bring them to respective level to get tortured.
as for old fart....he will not be reborn....most probably go to the 18 level of hell to soak inside the blood lake where he got no chance to reborn.
usually when old people about to die, they will choose which way they like to go. I think old fart choose the chinese way.
and most likely...by his weird actions....dress up like that....i guess may be another more few months he will go up the lorry !
Old people shows funny actions like dress up like kings and gays, before they die.
you lucky you never see him put g-string underpant and run about !