The online cemetery is to give mourners unable to secure a burial plot the chance to leave songs, virtual fruits and other offerings to departed loved ones, the South China Morning Post reported.<\/p>\n
Every account would be allocated 10 megabytes of space for offerings to the dead, the city’s cemeteries official Cheuk Wing-hing told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
The move is one of a number of measures being taken to try to ease the huge queues for burial plots in the high-rise city of 7 million which is one of the most densely populated in the world.<\/p>\n
Burial plots are often more expensive than luxury properties in the wealthy city and there is also a chronic under-supply of facilities to house the ashes of cremated people.<\/p>\n
The past year has seen a sharp rise in the number of people opting to scatter ashes at sea off Hong Kong and the government is due from February to offer mourners a free boat service to encourage the trend.<\/p>\n