Online funerals mooted
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March 28, 2010, Sunday
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AS the traditional Qingming Festival looms on April 5 and Chinese prepare to offer sacrifices to ancestors and sweep the tombs of the dead, talk is turning to holding a funeral service online.
Zhu Yong, deputy director of a Ministry of Civil Affairs research institute, told a recent forum in Beijing that the new type of green funeral and interment was a worldwide trend and avoided waste of social and natural resources.
Usually, remains are not kept for online funerals. Instead, a eulogy, portrait of the deceased and pictures of the farewell party and mourners are posted online for relatives and friends to commemorate. A virtual cemetery is also set up on the Internet.
Zhu said the green concept of interment was popular in countries like Australia and New Zealand where some online gravestones were simply of name card size.
This kind of funeral suits China because of the country's "sparse land and huge population," he said.
However, the convention that only "burial brings peace to the deceased" still influenced the Chinese public, and they could not accept online funerals immediately.
Zhu suggested more policies be developed by the government to encourage the "green burial" concept.
Zhu Yong, deputy director of a Ministry of Civil Affairs research institute, told a recent forum in Beijing that the new type of green funeral and interment was a worldwide trend and avoided waste of social and natural resources.
Usually, remains are not kept for online funerals. Instead, a eulogy, portrait of the deceased and pictures of the farewell party and mourners are posted online for relatives and friends to commemorate. A virtual cemetery is also set up on the Internet.
Zhu said the green concept of interment was popular in countries like Australia and New Zealand where some online gravestones were simply of name card size.
This kind of funeral suits China because of the country's "sparse land and huge population," he said.
However, the convention that only "burial brings peace to the deceased" still influenced the Chinese public, and they could not accept online funerals immediately.
Zhu suggested more policies be developed by the government to encourage the "green burial" concept.
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