Can’t Afford to Live, Can’t Afford to Die in China
Submitted by Bill Belew on Friday, 18 April 2008No Comment
The average price of an apartment in Beijing – Y20,000 per square meter. The average price of a tomb – the same.
Thank goodness, a dead guy doesn't take up too much space, need to go to the bathroom, take a bath or cook, eh?
Funerals cost Y4,000 minimum.
A white marble casket goes for Y3,000.
Some 80% of funeral homes in China are state owned. Half of cemeteries are.
Beijing is making a killing off the dying.
In 2006, China cremated some 4 million people. Revenue is over Y8 billion and profit is about 12% of that.
Can't afford to live. Can't afford to die in China.
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“The average price of an apartment in Beijing – Y20,000 per square meter. The average price of a tomb – the same.”-Obviously the author is exagerating. And I’m wondering how did he/she make up the data? As to the price of a tomb, that’s more ridiculous. Most of dead people are cremated in China and they don’t need a tomb at all. If cremating really costs that much, Chinese government would have beed drowned by Chinese people’s mouthwater-China’s old people account for a large number of the total popularity.
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