Funerals are big business in Japan. Typical
reikyusha (depending on if you want a sedate Bentley
hearse or you'll settle for a
bling-
darake Benz), burial and 'handling' fees are outrageously expensive. Grave prices are astronomical and then those pesky annual grave maintenance fees... Entrepreneurs have been shaking up the industry in recent years, but this is an interesting twist. From
Mainichi:
A growing number of temples, for instance, are storing remains together in multilayered, underground chambers to save on plot costs. Mourners enter a special room, insert a card into a machine, and a conveyer belt delivers the boxed ashes of their loved ones for praying.
Now, when Keith Richards needs a hit, he can just dial up dad and indulge.
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