{"id":3848,"date":"2011-04-06T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2011-04-06T23:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:58:01","slug":"its-kind-of-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/its-kind-of-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Kind of Tragic\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
… when life sucks, but you can’t afford to die<\/a>:<\/p>\n As families across China begin today’s annual “Qing Ming”, or Tomb-sweeping, festival, there has been a growing chorus of complaint about the price of cemetery plots, some of which now exceed cost of luxury apartments in square foot terms. <\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n “I cannot afford to buy a house while I’m alive and now cannot afford to buy a grave for when I’m dead,” commented one user on the portal dayoo.com hosting a discussion of the subject, while another added bitterly, “So now we cannot sleep peacefully even after we die?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Yes, I know, we do it best here in India: it’s better to burn out than to fade away.<\/p>\n (Link via Marginal Revolution<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n