Let’s talk about “funerals” from now on (by Takahiro Takino) / Mainichi Newspaper Publishing Co.

The book describes in detail the situation surrounding graves and funerals today.
It is easy to see how the environment surrounding graves and funerals today has changed dramatically.

The book consists of the following components

Chapter 1: From the Field of Special Cleaning – Solitary Death
Chapter 2: Unrelated Society and Graves: IT Funerals and Space Funerals, End-of-Life Boom, Deflation of Funeral Rites, Intangible and Fluidized Graves
Chapter 3: Until Funerals Become Self-Responsibility: The Funeral Radical Change in the Heisei Era
Chapter 4: From the Graves of the World
Chapter 5: Funeral Rites as “Connections
Chapter 6: Funeral Rites in the Future

The description of the funeral expenses is included.

Funeral Cost Average
2,029,020 yen in 2013 → 1,839,735 yen in 2015 → 1,782,516 yen in 2017

Total Amount of Incense Donations from Members of the Congregation
886,844 yen in 2013 → 789,006 yen in 2015 → 739,094 yen in 2017

Average number of attendees
78 in 2013 → 60 in 2015 → 64 in 2017

Number of people attending the funeral
Less than 20 persons 24
(The rate is highest for less than 20 people in 11 steps up to more than 200 people, and the rate decreases with each increase in the number of people)

Survey on Funeral Rites (Japan Association of Consumer Organizations)
Direct funeral is acceptable Own funeral 57.9% Family funeral 35.0

Requirements for Modern Tombs
➀Not to be inherited by descendants ➁Proximity to residential graves ➂Price ➃Group cemetery ➄Concept

How to conduct memorial services such as wake ceremony, farewell ceremony, memorial service for the first seven days, memorial service for 49 days, etc.
Graves, too, have been buried in the same manner, beginning with joint burial, scattering of ashes, and burial in trees, and continuing with IT burial and space burial.
The way things are done has changed dramatically.

In this world, it is commonplace for people to be unable to maintain their graves and to have their graves closed or reinterred.

We are proposing a way of graveside and funeral services in which IT can be utilized to provide a generous memorial service for the deceased.

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