Video: Not the last resting place. Japanese hotel for the dead
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The final resting place for the vast majority of people, a cemetery or urn for ashes serves, even in exotic Japan. But it is in Japan that the dead before cremation can stay in the penultimate refuge - hotel for the dead, invented by the resourceful lord Hisayushi Teramura. Why do you need a hotel for those who no longer need anything, and what service the departed can count on - read on.
The thing is that in Japan there is very little free land - after all, more than 127 million people live in a small country! And about 1.6 million of them die every year. As you understand, cemeteries in Japan are not very popular: after all, thousands of hectares of land, which are so necessary for the living, will have to be allocated to the last refuge for the dead. The most common method of burial here is cremation. But even she still needs to wait: there are queues in the crematoria, and considerable ones. What is to be done for a family in which someone recently died? Put a dear dead man in the center of the main room and wait for his turn for a week? No, go to the hotel for the dead.
Hisayushi Teramura built " penultimate resting place"near Yokohama: here the queues for cremation reach 4 days, and at this time the hotel for the dead is very relevant. The comfort in the rooms here is minimal: clean white walls, a granite table for flowers and a refrigerator in the center. Of course, the room is not needed for the convenience of the deceased, but for his grieving loved ones.
Oddly enough, the hotel also has a bar - have you already imagined the living dead drinking Bloody Mary? In reality, the bar is needed not by the guests, but by their visitors: sometimes grief over deceased loved ones can only be weakened by alcohol.
Every day of stay in " not the last refuge"will cost the relatives of the deceased 12,000 yen (156 dollars) - perhaps this is not so much in return for the inconvenience that a corpse can create in a small Japanese apartment. Inventive hotel owner Hisayushi Teramura has already set the business on a grand scale: there are enough visitors. on the whole, he is satisfied with his salary and has nothing against work - they only complain about the cold, sometimes downright grave.
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