How to handle free sea burial after the death of the elderly in Shenyang

Free sea burial for the elderly in Shenyang:

1. Click on the website to apply online and learn about the sea burial package and related sea burial services.

2. You can consult Shenyang Cemetery Network Sea Burial Service Center for telephone application.

3. The sea burial in Shenyang is divided into three sea burial routes: Dalian, Yingkou and Dandong. The activity lasts for two days, and the transportation is air-conditioned bus. Members of the public can also choose other means of transport to go by themselves. Citizens who participate in sea burial activities enjoy the national policy of reducing or exempting each ashes, and provide citizens with sea burial degradation containers, buses, boats, flowers, sea burial supplies, insurance and sea burial ceremony services free of charge.

In order to further deepen the funeral reform, protect the ecological environment and save land resources, Shenyang vigorously promotes land-saving ecological funeral. At present, the main burial methods are sea burial, tree burial, flower bed burial, lawn burial and long-term storage of ashes. The family members of the deceased buried in the sea can collect the ashes. Each subsidy for the ashes buried at sea belongs to 400 yuan, and the subsidy is paid to the families of the ashes buried at sea in cash.

The following materials shall be provided during handling:

1, copy of death certificate and household registration cancellation certificate of the deceased;

2. The original and photocopy of the ID cards of the applicant and participants.

Collection location: Shenyang Sea Burial Service Hall.

To sum up, sea burial is an important development of funeral system. By scattering ashes into the sea, human beings expressed their desire to return to nature and broke the traditional concept of "being buried in the soil". Sea burial is conducive to saving land resources, promoting economic development and meeting the needs of social spiritual civilization construction. In Shenyang, the number of citizens signing up for sea burial has gradually increased, which shows that people gradually accept new concepts and things and abandon old ones.

Legal basis:

Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Funeral Management

Article 4

Sea burial shall be organized and implemented by the civil affairs department or its authorized unit, and no individual or other organization may conduct sea burial without authorization.