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Japan faces crematorium shortage

Lifestyle Sep. 10, 2008 - 06:30AM JST ( 27 )

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aintgottimetoblSep. 10, 2008 - 08:38AM JST

viking funerals!!with the right marketting sure to take off !
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OgieDoggieSep. 10, 2008 - 08:57AM JST

Flash Freezing???
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suebe36dSep. 10, 2008 - 10:19AM JST

Believe your loved ones live on in a thousand winds & in your heart if not as an avatar.
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BettingSep. 10, 2008 - 10:51AM JST

This could have a good side though. Think of all those people without jobs, they'll be able to get a job that ... everyone is dying to get into :)
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beavisSep. 10, 2008 - 11:49AM JST

Crematoriums must cost a lot of money to operate and probably contribute to a poor air quality. There are options other than cremation. Recycling as a food source for farm animals for instance.
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beavisSep. 10, 2008 - 12:02PM JST

The U.S. pays other countries to take its trash. Couldn't Japan farm out some of this task to other countries?
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serindipitySep. 10, 2008 - 12:13PM JST

Wow! No where to live and nowhere to die! The future of Japan looks bleak.
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electric2004Sep. 10, 2008 - 12:59PM JST

Why is cremation a topic for "lifestyle"?

Actually it sounds more like the opposite. In that sense, OFF Topic.
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AltriaSep. 10, 2008 - 01:10PM JST

Funeral costs are also going up with the price of gasoline.
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bushloverSep. 10, 2008 - 02:47PM JST

Yes Altria, maybe they should look to Mass Cremations to save on gasoline. Or go to Touyou.
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NessieSep. 10, 2008 - 03:41PM JST

A symptom of the recent butter shortage?
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OsakadazSep. 10, 2008 - 03:58PM JST

why not just add it to the list on 'moerugomi' day? They burn pretty much anything else.There is some burning desire left in this country after all.
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bongoboySep. 10, 2008 - 07:11PM JST

beavis at 11:49 AM JST - Crematoriums must cost a lot of money to operate and probably contribute to a poor air quality. There are options other than cremation. Recycling as a food source for farm animals for instance.

Moderator: Stay on topic please.
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OgieDoggieSep. 11, 2008 - 01:09AM JST

Humans are the only ones that fight the **CIRCLE OF LIFE **(we eat cow, we die our bodies help Fertilize the soil and because of that grass grows and cows eat the grass and of course we eat cow).

Civilized humans instead of putting the dead six feet under in green pastures (or drop them in the sea to feed the fish which in turn we eat) we burn them up and put them into little jars or bury them in concret boxes.

If we just go back to the CIRCLE OF LIFE and practice it we wouldn't have this crematorium shortage.

Just remember that the CIRCLE OF LIFE is natures way or RECYCLING. But I do like aintgottimetobl post suggesting Viking Funnerals...it is sort of Japanese when you think about the floating of laterns each year symbolizing the spirits travel to the next world. But then again Viking Funnerals do use up oil and produces Global Warming so aintgottimetobl am sorry but your Viking Funnerals are OUT (at least in Japan).
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maryhingeSep. 11, 2008 - 07:12AM JST

There is something gravely wrong here.
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KitsuneYoukaiSep. 11, 2008 - 10:14PM JST

I don't know, whether they cremate them in the sea on a boat or in a building on land shouldn't make a difference. They are still ebing cremated. What's the big deal here?
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NYC_SamuraiSep. 12, 2008 - 12:24AM JST

“A cremation vessel would have many advantages,” said Katsuhiro Motoyama, a spokesman for the Nippon Foundation. “It is cheap to build and it does not occupy any land.”

Dolphins and fish could dine on the morsels so when we eat them, we are completely the circle.
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Good_JorbSep. 12, 2008 - 05:26AM JST

Build solar crematoriums, it would be a fitting way to go in 日本.
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NessieSep. 12, 2008 - 09:59AM JST

“A cremation vessel would have many advantages,”

On the good ship, Cremlolipop

It's a sweet trip to the candyshop...
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SkywardsSep. 13, 2008 - 12:58AM JST

Then the sole crematorium in Nagoya ought to let the opposing residents know to arrange their funerals somewhere else, so the facility can accommodate the residents who support the crematorium.
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USARoninSep. 14, 2008 - 04:30AM JST

Bodies can be used to create additional energy as they're burned in metropolitan waste furnaces.

Hey, they were only human.

Go green.

USAR