Hong Kong - Hong Kong officials are setting up an online cemetery to help ease the city's chronic shortage of burial plots, a news report said Thursday. The online cemetery is to give mourners unable to secure a burial plot the chance to leave songs, virtual fruits and other offerings to departed loved ones, the South China Morning Post reported.
Every account would be allocated 10 megabytes of space for offerings to the dead, the city's cemeteries official Cheuk Wing-hing told the newspaper.
The move is one of a number of measures being taken to try to ease the huge queues for burial plots in the high-rise city of 7 million which is one of the most densely populated in the world.
Burial plots are often more expensive than luxury properties in the wealthy city and there is also a chronic under-supply of facilities to house the ashes of cremated people.
The past year has seen a sharp rise in the number of people opting to scatter ashes at sea off Hong Kong and the government is due from February to offer mourners a free boat service to encourage the trend.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301575,online-cemetery-set-up-to-ease-hong-kongs-graveyard-crush.html.
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