Funeral homes seek burial for leftover urns

SHANGHAI - Funeral homes here have long had trouble deciding what they should do when a family does not claim the ashes of a deceased relative.

That predicament became the subject of discussion again this past weekend when a funeral house invited volunteers to find resting places for 101 urns.

Eighteen volunteers came together for the task after learning about the unclaimed ashes through a notice in the media. Going to the Binhaiguyuan Cemetery in Shanghai on Saturday, they held various unclaimed urns in their hands as if they were related to the people whose ashes were inside and then buried them.