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Practice of using apartments to store relatives’ ashes has risen as rapid urbanisation and ageing population increases competition for cemetery plots

China is introducing a law to stop people storing the ashes of their dead relatives in empty high-rise flats rather than paying steep costs for increasingly scarce cemetery plots.

China’s new funeral management legislation will prohibit the use of “residential housing specifically for the purpose of storing cremated remains” and the burial of corpses or construction of tombs in “areas other than public cemeteries”.

The law will come into force on Tuesday ahead of Sunday’s Qingming grave-sweeping festival – a traditional Chinese celebration in which people clean their ancestors’ tombs and make ritual offerings.

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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder if it's anything like the US where the average funeral is about $15k... Idk about cemetery plots but can't be cheap either. It's a joke out here how expensive it's become just to die.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

If my family spends more than the bare minimum to have me cremated and dump my ashes in an empty field, imma haunt them

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

The US is a slave plantation designed to wring every drop of money out of your slave life. We serve at the pleasure of the masters who can take away everything from you if you don’t play along. Or they’ll sacrifice your life to pedophiles in another country. It’s a very free country. Lots of freedom, for sure.