What should I do if there are no descendants after the cemetery property rights expire?

The cemetery protection fee is based on a payment cycle of 20 years, but things and people change in 20 years. If the descendants are unwilling to renew the payment, what will happen to the deceased's cemetery? Will it really be legalized? Digging the grave? The solution may be beyond your imagination. "No matter how well-decorated the house is, it is only a temporary residence. That small box is your forever home." This is a classic line in Zhao Benshan's sketch, but in fact, it may be even more tragic in reality, because you will find this "small box" "It only lets you rent it for 20 years, but it won't be your permanent home at all.

Common sense about the purchase and use of cemeteries. In fact, there are two forms of cemeteries in our country: one is a public welfare cemetery, and the other is a commercial cemetery. In rural areas, after the death of a relative, the children often pick a feng shui treasure on their own land to bury the deceased. Unless there are special circumstances, they will not move the grave again. In this way, no one will care about the burial for decades or hundreds of years. If someone destroys it, You can also claim compensation, realizing a "forever home" in a true sense. In recent years, in order to prevent cemeteries from occupying a large amount of cultivated land, public welfare cemeteries have appeared in rural areas, that is, cemeteries where villagers' ashes can be buried for free, and there is no subsequent payment of fees, but only deceased villagers in the village can be buried here. But nowadays, more and more young people are yearning for life in the city. The urban population has far exceeded the rural population. Therefore, most people can only choose the second burial method: for-profit cemeteries. Such a cemetery needs to be purchased by the family of the deceased. 1. Choosing a cemetery is actually similar to choosing a real estate. You must bring relevant documents and go to the relevant formal place to purchase. Private transactions of graves are strictly prohibited. 2. After arriving at the cemetery, be sure to check the certificate of the sales unit: whether there is a certificate issued by the industry and commerce, civil affairs, and land departments. Some illegally operated cemeteries will sell burial plots at high prices in the name of permanent use. These are not protected by law, and it will be difficult to protect rights and interests if problems arise in the future. 3. The use period of a cemetery is not permanent. Depending on the nature of the land, the use period of the cemetery ranges from 50 to 70 years. However, this does not mean that relatives do not need to take care of anything during these 70 years. Every 20 years, Relatives need to pay tomb-keeping fees, otherwise the ashes of the deceased will be handed over to the cemetery management for disposal. What fees are needed to purchase a cemetery? 1. Grave fee. Including the cost of stone materials and construction costs for tombs and stele, to put it bluntly, it is the cost of buying a house and decorating it. Different locations and Feng Shui quotations also vary, accounting for the main part of the entire funeral cost. 2. Monument engraving fee. The fees charged for the biographical information of the deceased vary depending on the number of words and the craftsmanship, ranging from a few hundred to a thousand yuan. 3. Burial expenses. On the day of the deceased's burial, professional funeral personnel will perform ceremonies such as opening, burying, and sealing the tomb. 4. Certificate fee. That is, the "Tomb Certificate". This certificate will detail the tomb number of the purchased tomb and the user and other relevant information. Generally, the cost of the certificate is charged. 5. Tomb protection fee. According to the current "Funeral Management Regulations", a one-time fee for 20 years of cemetery management will be charged, which is about 5-10% of the purchase price of the cemetery. However, the relevant regulations have not yet been perfected, and there may be new ones in 20 years. change. A cemetery that is more expensive than a house ends up being "rented". Maybe the rented house is a "second-hand house" that others have lived in. This makes many people say that they "can't afford to die". If there is no one in 20 years, If someone comes to renew, what will happen to the ashes?

If the descendants do not renew, what will happen to the ashes? Generally speaking, after the 20-year period is up, the cemetery staff will try to contact the descendants or relatives of the deceased. , notify them to renew. If the family expresses their unwillingness to renew, they can take the ashes of the deceased back for free and handle them themselves. Most family members will choose to bring the ashes back for burial at sea or planting trees, and some family members will choose residential houses in the city specially used to store urns. After all, the useful life of residential houses is 70 years, so there is no need for so much trouble. In addition, family members can also use tower burials. For some indoor tower burials, you only need to purchase the tomb once and you can obtain permanent use rights. After the 20-year period expires, family members need to go through the procedures for moving out the ashes within 3 months and return the tomb certificate, contract, and bills. If the time limit is exceeded, the procedures will not be processed. If the family members do not come to handle the matter during this period, or the family members cannot be contacted, the cemetery will consider the family members to have abandoned the tomb, and the staff will process the ashes of the tomb in accordance with the "Relevant Process for the Disposal of Unclaimed Ashes" deal with.

There are three ways for general staff to handle ashes: 1. Scattering ashes into the sea: Some regular funeral service units will conduct a collective sea burial for the unclaimed ashes that have expired, so that the ashes of the deceased can return to the sea forever. In the embrace of nature. 2. Flower bed burial: Flower bed burial is a burial method vigorously promoted in our country. There are also such public flower beds across the country to bury the ashes of the deceased. In this way, the ashes and urn will slowly dissolve into the soil and nourish the earth. 3. Deep burial of ashes: This is a method adopted by most funeral companies and cemeteries to deal with unclaimed ashes. The ashes that have not been renewed for a long time or are unclaimed are buried together in accordance with regulations. After the urns are transferred and processed, the vacant grave space will be dismantled tombstones, leveled tombs, etc., waiting to be sold to other people in need in the future.

Written at the end It is said that a person will die three times in his life: the first time his heart stops beating, you are already dead from a biological point of view. The second time is at the funeral. The moment you are buried, you are socially dead. The third time is when the last person who remembers you dies, and you truly die. The cemetery is not so much a person's final destination as it is the last thoughts a person leaves for his relatives in the world. Twenty years is enough for things to change. When the last person who misses him is no longer alive, where will his ashes go? , it’s not that important anymore.