Name: Inside the Japanese graveyard of the future! | Japan With Sue Perkins - BBC
Uploaded: 2020-06-16T02:39:26.000Z
Duration: 3 min 19 s
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Yumiko has come to pay her respects            to her husband,

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who's been resting here, digitally  speaking, for the last two years.

This is quite      an extraordinary place.

It feels like   I've walked into a video game.

It's one of the most futuristic      things I've ever seen,

I'm surprised by how contemplative    and almost spiritual it feels.

It feels like a place of worship, it  feels like a place of contemplation.

So, what's the benefit    of having your resting place

in an LED cemetery rather than     the conventional cemetery?

Do you feel connected         to your husband?

You've crushed any sense          of the spiritual

It just, I've come here,       I've lit up a button.

And that's it,   and I'm off again for my tea.

When I go into a graveyard    in England, sometimes I see

And sometimes I see some huge marble  posh ones with billions of flowers.

But here, it's a sort of     democratisation of death.

Everyone's the same, whether  they were rich or poor in this life,

whether they had children          or no children.

Here's another thing  that Japan has done magnificently.

You can type in your loved-one's       name, and up they pop.

You don't have to keep     all of their ashes there.

The idea of just one body,           one headstone

and feeling... I remember my dad       going to see his mum,

if you don't spend a long time        tending the flowers.

"I really love you       and I really miss you.

"I don't have time to do the garden        around your gravestone,

"but I will come here and sit down   and think, as the lights change

"in this extraordinary place,    about how great you were."