'No farewells, no ceremonies': China's Hubei cremates coronavirus dead

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JINGZHOU, China (REUTERS) - Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

JINGZHOU, China - Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus.

"No farewells, no ceremonies are allowed," Mr Sheng told Reuters matter-of-factly in his office in the bare, off-white building. For the families, none of the complex and comforting rituals, full of filial piety, to ensure a peaceful journey to the afterlife: all-night vigils, white mourning clothes, visitors paying their last respects around the carefully dressed body in the coffin, perhaps Taoist or Buddhist prayers.

"In the past, before the epidemic, there would be a vigil of up to three days and we would carry out our work after," said Mr Sheng, a red China flag pin in the lapel of his white lab coat. Of the crematorium's eight furnaces, one is dedicated to coronavirus victims, whose families may not see the body before it is cremated.

 

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