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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: A Cemetery's Waitlist [Watch (HLS stream): A Cemetery's Waitlist](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/htUWNbbm.m3u8) (3:35)  _Published 2009-05-16. In Hong Kong, where superstition forbids putting cemeteries near residences, people wait for months for a space to put their loved ones' ashes_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Hong Kong Protests](/video/02BHCLBb/) ### Hong Kong Protests [Hong Kong Parkour](/video/rr9xeMi7/) ### Hong Kong Parkour [Hong Kong Comedy](/video/De6L8PG3/) ### Hong Kong Comedy --- ## Transcript >> [ Foreign language ] >> My dad passed away in-- since December, and now, it's already April. But, I know so many people, they have been waiting for more than a year, you know, to get a space to put their, you know, relatives' ashes. >> [ Foreign language ] >> The spaces are so limited. In fact, you know, every year, there's more than 30-- 40, 000 people passing away and the population is still growing in Hong Kong. And, I really wonder, you know, what they're gonna do, you know, in the future?- [ Foreign language ] >> [ Foreign language ] >> In Hong Kong, the [ unk ] of the graveyard is very limited, and most of the graveyard that can bury the body have a term for, say, 10 years, and you have to take out again the bones. And, the families don't want to make that sad story to happen again after 10 years. So, they make a decision to do the cremation.- [ Foreign language ] >> Actually, what we call in Chinese a place for the dead people, we call "[ Foreign language ]" and for a place for the [ unk ]-- living people to live is "[ Foreign language ]", is two different that cannot be mixed. >> I see, and if it is mixed? >> Mixed? Then the ghost will go into the house, they believed. On the birthday of ancestors, they'll come to our shop and buy some sacrificed fruit and will pay the worship there in our shop. And, some ashes are placed in a funeral home; they also go there to do-- to burn the sticks and buy some sacrificed fruit and they do it. But, everything-- every time they come to visit the shop, they will have to store in memory, that one thing have not settled. >> We got people like this; you know, more than 10, 000, 20, 000, maybe even more, waiting for some-- just a box space which is really necessary. 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