Is cremation obsolete? The 'new funeral' method was tested in Wuhan

As we all know, birth, old age, sickness, and death are inevitable, even unavoidable in human life, so we can only choose to accept death openly. However, the ancient Chinese always attached great importance to the matter of burial.

In "Shooting a Child Skeleton Vengeance" by Feng Weimin, he wrote: "Since ancient times, it is important to close the coffin and bury it in the ground".

In the eyes of the ancients, no matter how many achievements a person can achieve in a lifetime, in the end, he will only turn into a handful of loess. Especially in the concept of a long-form culture, the Chinese have a long tradition of returning to their roots, and also attach great importance to the final stage of life, which is returning to the ground because this is the concept of the people. China about funerals.

However, along with the development and change of society, the way of funeral and burial also entails the development and evolution of funeral culture. Today, people are no longer attached to the burial method, and there are many unknown burial methods.

Learn about the development of Chinese funerals and a new burial method that was tested in Wuhan.

Burials have been around for a long time but are not suitable for today's society

Many Chinese people still practice the method of burial burial after death, also known as burial burial. The reason burying is still popular is because the ancient Chinese were basically farmers, influenced by the farming civilization, so most Chinese believe that only people are buried underground after death. may receive the blessings of the earth and thus be at peace after death. This is also an ancient concept of respecting nature.

The way funerals and burials also lead to the development and evolution of funeral culture.

The influence of this concept on the Chinese is deeply ingrained, so even in modern times, many older generations still attach great importance to tradition and still favor this traditional burial method.

However, although respecting tradition is a good thing, with the development of the times, many shortcomings in burial ground have gradually been exposed, the most obvious of which is that burial ground is increasingly scarce.

As we all know, with the development of science and technology, now the number of farmers is very small. The development of towering buildings occupying a lot of land, real estate prices have skyrocketed, causing the demand for land resources in China to continuously increase. . This exposes the inadequacies of burial.

The disadvantage of burial is that it consumes a lot of land resources. Currently, land is limited. If you want to have a cemetery, you have to pay a very expensive price, even having to wait many years to have one.

At the same time, it was also discovered that the burial method is very unfriendly to the environment, people are no longer affected by feudal concepts and are obsessed with burial, so the burial method has been adopted by some people. who removed and replaced by cremation!

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Cremation

Nowadays, due to social circumstances, even many places no longer allow burial, so the funeral method in China also has an update. After giving up on burial, cremation is something more people are willing to accept.

About cremation, I believe many people know, that is the way to burn the dead body to ashes and then bury.

Compared to cremation, cremation does not need to take up as much land as cremation, but the cost of cremation is still relatively high, although compared to the price of land, this is not an issue. This is also the reason why cremation will gradually be accepted by more people.

However, cremation is not without its disadvantages, for example, pollutant gases such as carbon dioxide generated from burning corpses, even destroy the ozone layer, which is very detrimental to human survival. For this reason, new green and environmentally friendly funeral technology is very important. In that situation, ice burial was born.

Cremation is a way of burning the dead body to ashes and then burying it.

New funeral methods and interventions have been tested in Wuhan, and a 100kg person has 13kg of ashes

In fact, the Eskimos of North America have had a long tradition of burial on ice.

The Eskimo funeral rite involves wrapping the dying person with a piece of animal skin and placing it in a prepared cave. The dying person simply lies on the ice and waits for death to come. When the dying person enters the ice cave for five days, their family members will completely block the entrance of the ice cave, in this way it is equivalent to becoming an ice tomb, and the deceased can rest in peace. .

To us, this method of funeral and burial is indeed incomprehensible, but for the Eskimos, it is a tradition they have always kept, and it has been used for a long time.

Perhaps inspired by this method of funeral and burial, a new method of funeral and burial was born, which is burial in ice, but this burial method is not quite the same as the burial method. Eskimos stash.

Ice burial is the use of liquid nitrogen to store the remains of the deceased in a low-temperature environment of minus 196 degrees Celsius.

Generally speaking, when it comes to ice burial, one would think that this method of funeral is probably freezing the human body in a low temperature environment, but there are many differences in reality.

In fact, the so-called ice burial is the use of liquid nitrogen to store the remains of the deceased in a low-temperature environment of minus 196 degrees Celsius. A corpse in this environment for a long time will quickly be lost. water and become very fragile. After waiting for a while, the deceased's body is crushed in an ultrasonic environment, thereby turning into ashes.

It is said that through burial in ice, a 100kg person will have about 13kg of ashes, a surprising result.

Ice burial does not require too much land and is environmentally friendly.

Through research, this new funeral method has many advantages compared to other funeral methods. For example, compared to cremation, cremation ice does not require too much land, and at the same time, compared to cremation, cremation ice is also very environmentally friendly. The burial will not cause any pollution problems. The so-called ice burial actually speeds up the natural decomposition of a corpse, so it naturally won't produce environmentally harmful gases like cremation.

According to relevant data, the ice burial technique was first invented by Swedish scientists, and relevant Chinese government agencies have also adopted this novel burial method and dig deeper into it, and now the ice burial technology has been introduced and started testing in the Wuhan area.

After this decision was announced, it quickly caused heated debate in society, with many different opinions on the issue.

In China, many people are very receptive to new things, and are very supportive of ice burial. To them, it seems that ice burial is actually more in line with today's concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development.

However, at the same time, there are some relatively conservative people who believe that this method of burial cannot be accepted at present because it violates the traditional Chinese concept of funeral, and at the same time, the cost of burial in Ice too high also discourages many people.

Therefore, it depends on the large-scale deployment of ice burial in China in the future, and the results of the trial in Wuhan.