Our mortality is not something we tend to dwell on and as for funerals, well, most people probably think about them as little as humanly possible and attend them only when they must.
The postmortem industry at the Funeral Business Fair every year. Death from a business perspective. It’s clearly a trade that will never die…pun intended. A typical Buddhist-style Japanese funeral, involves a wake, a ceremony and then a cremation. More than 99 percent of Japanese are cremated before their remains are enshrined in family graves.
At the Funeral Business Fair, all the 100 participating companies were involved in this process exhibiting their latest services and goods. A company from Nagoya introducing a system that changes pictures of the deceased like a slide show. Most funeral guests are likely to be staring at the picture of the deceased. Pictures of that person will make them happier as well as DVDs of the dearly departed’s life. Booths displaying candles, incense, mortuary tablets and other items used around an altar are displayed. Cardboard coffins are in style. Compared to conventional plywood ones, they use less wood and discharge less carbon dioxide. Just the thing for a cadaver concerned about the environment he or she left behind.
