China has a real cemetery problem. With 1.35 billion citizens, a rapid growing economy, and surging real estate prices, the cost of burying a person underground is getting really expensive and scarce.
Some cities in China are trying to incentivize people to choose to be buried at sea instead. They will pay their families up to $1,300 and an all-expenses paid boat trip for people to scatter their deceased loved one’s ashes at sea.
If this seems like a lot of money, it’s not as much as the cost of a grave. In Beijing, even a cheap grave can cost up to $16,000 to bury someone’s ashes. This is a real problem that they want to solve, as their death toll is expected to reach 20 million in just a few years.
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