Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves?

I don't think it makes any practical sense. Hong Kong by default is using cremation, unless some rich person have a land for them to keep their body inside a coffin because Chinese tradition prefer keeping the whole body after dead. Even if disposed to sea, they still need to build a grave for them. Cremation only required to have the space of urn to place, and a gravestone. The urn does not take many space. If graveyard is still required to build, it does not save too much space.

The alternative that saving space is just sent them back the urn of ash and people just put the gravestone at home. But putting dead body, even in ash, is taboo in Chinese tradition and nobody would accept it.

It is difficult to execute a policy that opposing the local tradition, and it is not really necessary.

Over the last couple days I’ve seen government posters up promoting this.

Not sure it will catch on, but a nice lifehack related to death practices in Hong Kong is to look for housing in Hong Kong by crematoriums. It is usually a lot cheaper as “traditional” people won’t want to live there.

From what I've heard, the root cause is the influx of population. The population is stressing out every aspect of the city, welfare, property prices, education, healthcare and here we have, graveyards. Maybe someone with more insight can chime in

I hope they look into recomposition. Recycling the human body into a tree is the closest thing we have to a second life.

https://www.recompose.life/

Does anyone offer the service of turning cremated ashes into diamond in HK? I can absolutely see Hong Kongers preferring to become a fashionable piece of jewelry to just being dumped into Victoria Harbour.

where will all that ash end up?

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