Cemeteries in the Sky: Compact Vertical Burial Designs

This might have influenced the design of the high-rise pagoda-like cemetery in Tainan, Taiwan, that goes by the name of the Lung Yen Life Service. In Hong Kong, cemeteries are often built on hill slopes to save space. In Japan, one businessman have even opened a hotel for the dead where bereaved families can temporarily keep the dead bodies while they wait their turn in the queue for one of the city's overworked crematoriums.