Funeral
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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…