{"id":95881,"date":"2017-07-03T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=95881"},"modified":"2017-07-03T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T05:33:32","slug":"dead-bodies-wait-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/dead-bodies-wait-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead bodies wait in Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corpse hotels, or hotels where people can check in their dead till the crematorium or cemetery becomes available, have become a burgeoning trend across Japan. The fast-ageing society and death rate in the country have contributed to this practical solution in cities.<\/p>\n

According to a report, 99% of people are cremated in Japan, the highest rate of cremation in the world. Due to this rush, a crematorium isn\u2019t always readily available.At one such \u2018itai hoteru\u2019 in Osaka, Hotel Relation, the rooms have built-in altars and platforms to hold the temperature-controlled coffins.<\/p>\n

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Up to four relatives can sleep in an adjacent room which has twin beds and a TV. A large number of the clientele at Hotel Relation prefers to spend a day or two with their departed family member before the crematorium becomes ready.<\/p>\n

Economically too, Corpse hotels make more sense. The Japan Consumer Association, which says the average funeral in Japan costs 1.95 million yen, or about $17,690 approx Rs 11.4 lakh. The cheapest deal at Hotel Relation would cost 185,000 yen, or about $1,768 (approx over Rs 1 lakh).<\/p>\n

These stopovers for the deceased first made an appearance in Japan about five years back. They have been steadily mushrooming since then.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCrematories need to be built, but there isn\u2019t any space to do so and that is creating funeral refugees,\u201d Hisao Takegishi, who started Sousou, a corpse hotel, in 2014, told.<\/p>\n

The demand for corpse hotels is only going to grow. About 1.3 million people died in Japan Last year, up 35% from 15 years earlier, and the annual death rate is expected to go up till it touches 1.7 million in 2040, as per the Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corpse hotels, or hotels where people can check in their dead till the crematorium or cemetery becomes available, have become a burgeoning trend across Japan. The fast-ageing society and death rate in the country have contributed to this practical solution in cities. According to a report, 99% of people are cremated in Japan, the highest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29597,2],"tags":[48277,48275,48276,48274,3284],"class_list":["post-95881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-cemetery","tag-corpse-hotels","tag-crematorium","tag-dead-bodies","tag-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Japan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}