Cremation
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Northern Europe
Swedish crematorium under fire for “making death less taboo”
A Swedish crematorium organises a treasure hunt for children. This way, they can learn about death, the centre argues. But not everyone agrees. “Whether you are young or old, you have questions about what happens to your body after death.” With this opening line, the Church of Sweden in Borås…
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Western Europe
Report: The Netherlands should criminalise desecration of deceased bodies
Currently, there is no article on the desecration of the bodies of deceased people in the Dutch criminal code. That should change, the Scientific Department of the Dutch Justice Ministry argues in a report. People are protected insufficiently after their death, the report of the research department of the Justice…
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German does not believe in life after death
Only a fraction of the German population still believes that there is life after death. The majority of Germans indicated in a survey that they think that death is the end of everything. Only 38 per cent said to believe that life continues after death, a survey by the German…
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Eastern Europe
Since the Corona pandemic, more Latvians choose for cremation
More Latvians chose cremation instead of a funeral. And fewer organise feasts afterwards. The Covid pandemic marks a change in Latvian funeral traditions. According to Edmunds streihfelds, president of the Latvian Association of Undertakers, the limits of the Covid-19 pandemic over the last two years and the available funds for…
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Eastern Europe
Bulgarian diocese organises petition against cremation
A diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is taking a stand against the un-Orthodox practice of cremation. Website Orthodox Christianity reports on this. A message on the official website of the Metropolis of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, states: “The Holy Metropolis of Plovdiv is organising in Plovdiv churches a petition…
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Western Europe
Dutch more positive about cremation
Cremation is getting increasingly popular in the Netherlands. Among Christians, Catholics are more positive about it than protestants. Six in ten of the Dutch want to be cremated after death. More than a third of the people whose parents still opted for burial choose cremation themselves. Nearly half of the…
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Eastern Europe
Cremation is on the rise in Russia because of corona
Russians are increasingly choosing to cremate their loved ones rather than bury them. That's the clear tendency during the corona pandemic. There are indeed more deaths in Russia than usual. The country has one of the world's highest excess death tolls from Covid-19. In recent weeks, the infections are surging…