'Can't afford to die': China embraces eco burials as plot prices outstrip housing

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Desire to honour ancestors sees some families buy an apartment to house cremated remains

This week, seven families laid the remains of their loved ones to rest in the Tianshou cemetery on the outskirts of Beijing. But these were burials with a difference. The families rode in golf carts made to look like hearses and scattered flower petals over a small plot of grass where biodegradable jars containing the ashes of their relatives were buried.

 

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Why not go for cremation? Much better all round.

Reckless progress and population growth will eventually make every nice town into an unlivable city.

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