Introduction
- Green life is the new direction for the future. In addition to waste reduction, recycling, and adopting a low-carbon lifestyle, we can also embrace green practices for after-death arrangements.
- Allowing our ashes to return to nature and transform into new life, leaving the world with more space and beautiful memories, is the final gift with the deepest love we can give to our family and nature.
- Green burial is a more environmentally friendly and sustainable means of handling cremated ashes of the deceased. Scattering the ashes in Gardens of Remembrance or designated waters to replace interring the ashes in niches, allowing them to return to nature and continue the cycle of life, holds a significant meaning.
Benefits of Green Burial
The FEHD currently provides free scattering services in Gardens of Remembrance and designated Hong Kong waters. Over other traditional funeral methods (such as depositing ashes in public columbaria or licensed private columbaria, or keeping them at home), green burial has the following advantages:
- Returning to nature; establishing a permanent connection with the natural world at the final moment of life, leaving a better world behind for future generations
- An enhanced eco-friendly and simplified funeral method
- Simplified and faster application process
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Relatively lower costs
(Note: the FEHD currently provides free scattering services in Gardens of Remembrance and designated Hong Kong waters) -
Avoidance of future extension procedures for columbarium niches
(Note: Starting from 26 April 2019, the initial interment period for public columbarium niches allocated is 20 years, which upon expiry may be extended for 10 years each time on payment of the prevailing prescribed fee.)
For more information on the latest green burial facilities and services, please visit the "Green Burial" thematic website.
