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Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves?
- larrysalibra 8y agoOver the last couple days I’ve seen government posters up promoting this. Not sure it will catch on, but a nice lifehack related to death practices in Hong Kong is to look for housing in Hong Kong by crematoriums. It is usually a lot cheaper as “traditional” people won’t want to live there.
- emiliobumachar 8y agoInteresting, but, are there any practical reasons for it, beyond status and psychology? Specifically, air pollution. Where do the fumes go? Are they negligible, or not?
- emmanuel_1234 8y agoThis kind of superstition are strong in Hong Kong. Best deal is the combo cemetary + unit where someone committed suicide (or near).
- lawlessone 8y agowhere will all that ash end up?
- pndy 8y agoSadly, I can't read the article without accepting site cookies
- analogmemory 8y agoI'm on latest Firefox with it's default tracking blocked and uBlock running. Didn't see any issues
- a_c 8y agoFrom what I've heard, the root cause is the influx of population. The population is stressing out every aspect of the city, welfare, property prices, education, healthcare and here we have, graveyards. Maybe someone with more insight can chime in
- Foobar8568 8y agoYou can add the language, mandarin vs Cantonese. Same pattern than Tibet and other provinces (basically cultural cleansing). Since 97, about 1.5m mainland Chinese settled in HK. More than 20% of its current population. Officially about 150 Chinese à day can migrate there.
- yazaddaruvala 8y agoI hope they look into recomposition. Recycling the human body into a tree is the closest thing we have to a second life. https://www.recompose.life/ https://www.recompose.life/
- newguynewguy 8y agoThis looks really cool, but I'm extremely suspicious of it. "We put you in a bin with wood chips" is about as detailed as the site gets about their process. It gets much more detailed about the facility and cultural implications. Also, they turn you into soil, not a tree. When my dad dies, why would this be better than me simply burying his naked body in the forest somewhere?
- vorpalhex 8y ago> why would this be better than me simply burying his naked body in the forest somewhere If he's not embalmed? Not much. If you embalm him first? A whole lot of time.
- 9712263 8y agoI don't think it makes any practical sense. Hong Kong by default is using cremation, unless some rich person have a land for them to keep their body inside a coffin because Chinese tradition prefer keeping the whole body after dead. Even if disposed to sea, they still need to build a grave for them. Cremation only required to have the space of urn to place, and a gravestone. The urn does not take many space. If graveyard is still required to build, it does not save too much space. The alternative that saving space is just sent them back the urn of ash and people just put the gravestone at home. But putting dead body, even in ash, is taboo in Chinese tradition and nobody would accept it. It is difficult to execute a policy that opposing the local tradition, and it is not really necessary.
- tvanantwerp 8y agoDoes anyone offer the service of turning cremated ashes into diamond in HK? I can absolutely see Hong Kongers preferring to become a fashionable piece of jewelry to just being dumped into Victoria Harbour.