Why should people be cremated after they leave? Isn't it a pity?

1, cremation reason: responding to the national call! Compared with burial, it is time-saving, labor-saving and money-saving, which is convenient for burial and saves land.

2. Cremation policy: Although cremation has existed since ancient times, it was actually put forward by President Mao Zedong in 1956, and the Interim Provisions on Funeral Management was promulgated in 1985, which determined to implement cremation, reform burial, and divide burial areas and cremation areas;

3. Advantages of cremation:

3. 1. Hygiene: Generally speaking, you should choose the auspicious day of the ecliptic for burial, but the body will rot if it is parked for a long time. After cremation, you can wait for the auspicious day of the ecliptic before burial;

3.2, save trouble and money: according to the traditional funeral ceremony, burial will be more complicated, and it will take more money, time and energy to do Dojo or book coffins. Cremation does not require mortuary and special coffin;

3.3. Land saving: There are also burial areas with more land and cremation areas with less land and more population in the Interim Provisions on Funeral Management, because burial requires larger coffins. In China, where the population base accounts for16 of the world population, cremation can save a very large area of land;

3.4. Convenient burial: The burial requires a depth of nearly 2 meters, and the coffin should be customized according to the size of the human body, that is, a grave pit with a depth of 2 meters, a width of 1.3 meters and a length of more than 2 meters is needed, and the urn after cremation need not be buried underground, and most of it can be seen in the cemetery.

Supplement: Compared with burial, there are actually water burial and sea burial, but few people will use those methods.