Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, addressing the struggle of dealing with those we've lost.

I'm acting like he's still alive.

For me, inside me, he's still alive. Miss him. I feel him.

Yes, from Greece to Singapore to Japan. Some of us are really struggling these days to dispose of our

loved ones, not just emotionally, but practically. Is it time we embrace new, greener technologies of returning to the soil?

I think family should have the option to say, I want to be reduced by fire, cremation, or reduced by water,

aquamation or alkaline hydrolysis.

New ways to go. That's a funereal business daily here on the BBC. The sound there of a country country country

and together

together to try to kongqing.

The sound there of a somewhat curious public ritual being enacted in China's Jiangxi province last year.

Government diggers publicly destroying thousands of wooden coffins.

Why were they doing this?

Well, the authorities were demanding an end to traditional ground burials in the region.

They wanted them replaced with cremation as a way to save public space.

The authorities even went so far as to snatch,

recently departed corpses from wooden coffins

in front of their grieving relatives.

It does sound pretty extreme, doesn't it?

In fact, the public outcry in China forced local officials to moderate their policy in this case.

But actually, the perceived problem of dealing with too many burials

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