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Parents find solace at Hong Kong's 'Forever Love' crematorium

Behind the doors of a terracotta-pink building with sloping arches is a facility unlike any other in Hong Kong — the city's sole crematorium where bereaved parents can say goodbye to their unborn babies, an option only offered since 2018 for fetuses under 24 weeks.

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00:35 We try to make the experience of sending them away
00:41 becoming a process by putting the baby to sleep
00:44 instead of making them think about what
00:47 is going to happen to the body after the burning
00:50 and turning to ash.
00:51 You push the baby in this loop here
00:57 and then the light switch here so they can switch off
01:01 the light of the bedroom.
01:03 And close the door of that room to say one last time goodbye,
01:09 goodnight to their loved one.
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01:15 To make it more like the building is part of the earth
01:29 because we want the family to feel that their loved one is
01:35 not going into a waste land but going back into the nature.
01:43 So we don't want their family to see the chimney
01:47 because it's happening.
01:48 So the main idea is to one way journey.
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01:58 In society, people don't want to talk about it.
02:07 People don't want to come to these type of facilities.
02:10 So that's also one thing we want to change the society that
02:16 is nothing scary.
02:18 It is a proper journey and it should be a better place to be.
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02:28 And we have maybe got different size of premixed remains.
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