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Crematorium refuses service if relatives of dead don’t buy its wreaths, urns
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A FUNERAL home in east China’s Jiangxi Province refuses to cremate the deceased if their relatives don’t buy urns and wreaths sold there, the local New Legal Report said today.
The act has led to conflicts between the funeral home and relatives who are forced to buy funeral-related accessories, with higher than market prices.
A rule has been in force since August 2012 in the funeral home of Xinyu city, ruling that no outside urns and wreaths are allowed in the parlor.
More than 20 kinds of urns are on display at the service hall of the funeral home, with prices ranging from 500 yuan (US$81.40) to 10,000 yuan, the report said.
“We had to buy a 1,200 yuan wooden urn at my mother’s funeral as we were told not to bring outside urns,” said a man surnamed Chen. He found a 600-yuan urn at a funeral service shop that was priced at 1,800 yuan at the funeral home, he added.
Owners of other funeral service shops in the city said the funeral home is not competing fairly and their business has been affected for months.
“The funeral home is allowed to package its services, and it is not hostile competition since the urns they sell are different from those on the market,” the vice director of the local civil affairs bureau said in an interview.
It is a custom at Chinese funerals for relatives and friends to send wreaths. The ashes of the dead are placed in an urn that is customarily buried in a tomb days after the funeral.
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