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Funeral workers these days not only have to comfort their family members who have lost loved ones, but also solve a difficult puzzle of how to cremate a deceased family to provide that service. After all, the only crematorium in the country, which was stopped last week, is still closed in Kėdainiai.
“It is closer to a tragedy, a person cannot be buried due to some technical obstacles,” says Tomas Urbšas, manager of House of Silence.
PHOTO GALLERY. In the event of the failure of the Kėdainiai crematorium, relatives are transported to neighboring countries, waiting in lines for weeks.
So, funeral companies are now transporting the dead to Latvia’s neighboring countries and, more often, to Poland. However, even here there are already huge queues.
“We have clarified the information, it would be a cremation for the 30th day in Suwalki. There are two weeks from this day, of course, we are looking for all kinds of solutions,” says T. Urbšas.
Ritual service providers are open, they no longer count kilometers or time. After receiving a vacancy in a crematorium in Poland, the deceased is transported almost to Warsaw, about a hundred and a half kilometers one way.
“Dyshkov, our old job, near Warsaw. And let’s see where it is closer. We don’t pay much attention to price relationships anymore. Let’s see how to perform this human service. It also appeared in Białystok, and we also transported it there,” says T Urbšas.
More than 20 remains of the dead were cremated in the Lithuanian crematorium every day. Usually there were two lines operating here, but at the end of October, prevention and improvement work started on one, and when they were not finished, the second simply broke down. Although the failure was expected to be corrected in a few days, it turned out that there were more problems than expected, so everything would take time.
“The fault has not yet been fully identified, last week the line itself cooled down, because we work with high temperatures, it takes time, we hope to finish it quickly,” said Bernardas Vilkelis, director of the Lithuanian crematorium.
Funeral organizers say the country’s detained crematorium is sharply adjusting the course of the funeral. Such an extended process is suitable only for those who are waiting for relatives from abroad specifically for the funeral. Everyone else is having problems and the bodies need to be kept in special refrigerators for a long time. Some may choose to be buried in a coffin, but some fulfill the last will of the deceased, others must burn the body because of the coronavirus, others are limited by the place in the cemetery.
“Whether you want to bury in old graves or not, because only the urn is buried to fill the graves, they have nowhere to go and wait all this time. People say goodbye to the body before cremation, cremation, armor the next day, so we can’t do that today. We have an interval of two weeks; it creates a lot of inconvenience for us due to the reservation of the rooms ”, says T. Urbšas.
According to the person in charge of the crematorium, each year more and more deceased people are burned, and now around 20 percent of the dead lie in the urns of eternal rest.
“Every year the service gains popularity, we receive almost a thousand more issues each year than we planned last year. We hope this trend will continue,” says B. Vilkelis.
Representatives of the Lithuanian Crematorium promise that preventive works on the line will be completed in the near future and that it will be fully operational on Monday. And to avoid such disturbances in the future and with the rapid popularization of the service in Kėdainiai, a third incineration line is planned.
Other businessmen have already spoken about the construction of new crematoria in Klaipeda, and sites for such institutions are being explored in Kaunas and Vilnius.
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