Space-starved Hong Kong could get its first virtual cemetery for green burials
Imagine remembering your loved ones in a virtual cemetery that displays a digitalised version of your favourite location, while in real life, their ashes are stored in a high-rise columbarium that bans most tribute rituals.
This is what 80-year-old industrialist and inventor Yuen Se-kit and his son Anthony Yuen Sze-ming want to achieve.
As the city continues to age, the government has projected the number of deaths will double from 46,900 last year to 97,600 by 2064.
The share of people being cremated has increased from 35 per cent in 1975 to 93 per cent last year, while the share of green burials accounted for 9 per cent in 2015.
Yuen says the columbarium will ban incense or the burning of offerings to reduce pollution.
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