Rhinland-Paleletnet and Saxony-Anhalet in the German states have abolished their burial laws, taking the largest stride with MPs in the West German state.
“After more than 42 years we have created a new structure that incorporates the personal views and desires of the people in the state, with a dignified work of farewell,” said the Rhinland-Palestnet Clamens Hoche, which is the Social Social Democrat (SPD).
From October 1, people from the western state will now be able to choose Rhine, Mosele, Lahan or Saar rivers as their final resting place. Until now, it is not possible to spread the remains of the funeral in the rivers of Germany.
The new law introduced by the SPD coalition government, environmentalists, fulfills for Greens and Niolibral Free Democrats (FDP), ie homebody, which gives loved ones a chance to keep a urn, stays at home – one and first – or option to spread the remains in the garden.
Human ash makes diamonds
New laws in the Rhinland-Paltonate and the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, hence allowed to manufacture “Memorial Diamonds” from the ashes of the deceased.
Synthetic diamonds are grown at high temperatures from extracted carbon – a process introduced in Switzerland two decades ago. The search is becoming increasingly popular.
Orthodox opposed to Rhinland-Paletten, Christian Democrats (CDU), it is concerned that the law may be kneeling death for cemeteries-CDU politician Christofe Gentha accused the Hoch of having “Grave Digar” in a state Parliament’s debate.
The main Christians there criticize the churches. Menz’s Catholic Bishop Peter Kohalgraf told public broadcaster ZDF No one will know what happened in private homes.
Dorothy Wust, Chairman of Dorothy Wust, hate to think about forgetting or forgetting in jewelry in the jewelry made from the Ashes. ” Protestant Church In the paletten, explained the Evengelical Press Service (EPD).
German burial law out of step with social changes
The Federal Association of German Undertaker, BDB, however, are advocating the change. It represents 90% of the country’s funeral directors, some 5,000 companies.
General Secretary Stephen Neuser said that new laws increased the will of the people. Neuser told DW that members were often approached by condolences, who wanted to take the urn home or to remove the ash to build a jewelry memento.
“The burial culture that we have in Germany has changed a lot in recent years,” Heer said.
Some three -fourths of the dead of Germany are now cremated. Only one in five is buried.
With the Kalash taking very little space, the plot leases sometimes cost less and the cost of increasing maintenance as 10 years, The cemetery has been disappearing nationwide for a long time,
In the cemetery of Berlin, for example, in the area of land equal to 476 Football According to the 2024 report by the city’s technical university, the fields are now vacant.
More personal mourning and trend towards monument
Sociologist Thorsen Benkel said that the trend depicts mobility and changes the attitude towards mourning.
“People no longer want to decide where or how they should mourn.
Digital space has become a place for rapid sorrow and preservation of memories. Researchers at Pasau University still do not think that the cemetery will disappear – but will become an alternative among humans.
Benkel believes that people in Germany should have an independent hand to decide what the tombs should look like, as in the Netherlands.
The new law in the Rhineland-salletnet and Saxony-Anlt Mirror increased sensitivity to infants losing pain in early pregnancy stalls, now mandatory for “sterncanders” (“baby from stars”) with burial-abortion of-abortion of-was avoided.
Saxoni-Anhalt now allows the first shroud burial for Muslims and Jews, while Rhinland-Palletten has increased the option to all despite confidence.
Green funerals are becoming increasingly popular
Religious and cultural diversity, mentally good and secularism and concern for the environment are increasing, even though the funeral law has often not migrated.
Woodland burial grounds in Germany have become increasingly popular. The first was established in 2001, and now the main two operators run 175 sites alone.
Many people prefer informal natural settings for the regiment lines of traditional cemetery. So it is cheap, and the leases can last up to 99 years.
This gymnasium is also reflected in nature, despite their possible environmental influence, in interest in river and marine buria.
Rhinland wants to strictly regulate the river burial in the rhinland-palanet and correspond to the existing rules about maritime burials. The ash should be sent to the water in a biodenable urn from a ship.
No more radical back-to-generator Act, Northern State Schleswig-haolsteinTesting natural organic deficiency or terramation. The bodies are placed in a straw-layered “cocoon”, where microorganisms turn the remains into soil in about 40 days.
The pilot project, which has now been extended by June 2026, is monitored by League University. No environmental risk has been found so far.
Stop ‘death tourism’
A funeral care is to catch changes in consumer initiative, aeternitas, rhinland-pelotate and saxoni-anhalt, but there is a possibility of considerable resistance.
“A problem in Germany is that the burial rules are mainly characterized by incorrect and old traditions, where a much more liberal approach is common in other countries.
Some Germans are doing mischief of their loved ones outside the country and taking away their remains – or singing urns for the crematorium to reach the crematorium.
To prevent that kind of “death tourism”, people living in Rhinland-Paltonate only want to be eligible for the river burial. Even indifferent former residents did not give any chance.
And if a person who has nominated to take care of another German state to take care of his urn, they are neither allowed to keep it in their house nor allow it to anyone else. Regional laws may be absurd – and possible heartbreak – a landscape by a difference of thesis.
Edited by: Helen Whitel
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