China to ban storing remains of dead in ‘bone ash apartments’
المصدر: The Guardian World | Source: The Guardian WorldPractice of using apartments to store relatives’ ashes has risen as rapid urbanisation and aging 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”.
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