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Because the old ideas of rural people are serious, cremation is still unacceptable. In their minds, there is a traditional idea that people should be buried in peace after death, and it is best to be able to maintain a complete body, and parents with physical illness cannot be easily damaged, otherwise they will be ashamed to go down and see their ancestors.

The cost of cremation is not low, and the implementation of cremation will bring certain economic pressure to rural people, which is also an important reason for their opposition to cremation. The funeral home's body preservation fee, cremation fee, renting a hearse, buying a cemetery, etc. It is a big expense. Some poor families may not be able to afford this fee, but cremation still requires a big funeral, and there are many places to spend money.

The old man hopes that his body is intact. Some people hate a person and want to refuse others. If a person dies of natural causes, he may die without a complete body. All these traditional ideas show that people want to have a complete body after death, and they don't want to be crushed to ashes, nor do they want to die without a complete body. Some old people in the countryside have the same idea. They don't want to be cremated or burned to ashes. Isn't this a shame? They have never done anything against nature. Therefore, from the traditional thinking and the actual needs of the old people, they are all opposed to cremation as a funeral method.

Economic pressure In addition, economic pressure also makes rural people unwilling to be cremated. The main reason is that the social consumption is too high now, and the funeral home charges are not low. In particular, rural people are reluctant to spend tens of thousands when they see people in the city buying an ashes cemetery, and rich people can even spend hundreds of thousands, which leads to resistance. After all, there is a difference between the poor and the rich in the world, and the poor cannot be asked to be equal to the rich in everything. Therefore, it is reasonable to maintain burial in many places at present, and cremation is still not a one-size-fits-all method.