One of the hardest things I remember in the wake of my grandmother’s funeral was watching her two children, my father and aunt, make decisions about the funeral. It’s even worse when it’s an unexpected demise. Fortunately, a company in Tokyo, Japan, has a plan to help out bereaved families. The LISS System, a non-profit organization that helps families make funeral arrangements, has opened up something they call the LISS Center Shin-Kiba facility, which is best described as a business hotel for the dead.
For the low price of $88 per night, people can store their recently deceased relatives until they decide on what sort of funeral arrangements to make without cluttering up the facilities of the local undertaker. That’s right, it’s a temporary morgue capable of holding up to 37 bodies at one time, featuring antibacterial UV lighting to stave off decay. After all, it beats just leaving the bodies laying around.
“Bereaved families usually are rushed to decide on a mortician and often have problems later regarding the funeral,” said Nyokai Matsushima of LISS System. “We want the families to have time to think, so they can decide on a satisfactory ceremony while their deceased relatives have a place to rest (temporarily) at our ‘business hotel.'”
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