According to the Population Reference Bureau, there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7 billion more to join them within the next century. With the dead far outnumbering the living, it’s no surprising that space at cemeteries has become premium.

So many countries are looking towards the sky rather than towards the ground for a solution to their problem.

Asia is currently leading the trend in vertical cemeteries. In many Asian cultures, there’s already a tradition of burying the dead in multi-storey pagodas. This might have influenced the design of the high-rise pagoda-like cemetery in Tainan, Taiwan, that goes by the name of the Lung Yen Life Service.

In Japan, one businessman have even opened a hotel for the dead where bereaved families can temporarily keep the dead bodies while they wait their turn in the queue for one of the city's overworked crematoriums.

Abaya Wahala

Cremation remains the best.