The amount of land for cemeteries in HCM City is shrinking and authorities have been asked to draw up plans for future needs. About 7.5ha of land in Da Phuoc Cemetery in Binh Chanh District are covered in graves. Photo courtesy of nld.com.vn "My son died from cancer in January 2021. Burial costs were too high and it was not easy to find a cemetery in HCM City. So I decided to cremate. Since six temples nearby my house refused to store my son's ashes, we had to go to District 8 to do so," Nguyen Mot, a resident of Hiep Binh Chanh Ward in Thu Duc City told Người Lao Động (The Labourer) newspaper. Phoi Ngoc Thanh, owner of Cong Tho Phuc's funeral service in District 5, said that Binh Hung Hoa Cemetery in Binh Tan District was once the largest cemetery in HCM City with a scale of more than 100,000 graves. However, it has temporarily stopped burials as authorities are carrying out relocation and clearance of some graves. Da Phuoc Cemetery in Binh Chanh District is currently considered the largest cemetery in HCM City at 67 hectares wide. Existing graves cover 7.5 hectares of the area. "Compared to private cemeteries with land plots and construction services priced at VND350 million to 2.5… Read full this story
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