Chapter 260: Grave Friends

The word "grave friend" is a form of friendship in which old people who hold the concept of common life and death jointly purchase a cemetery with funds, and then bury them in the cemetery together after their death, which means that they are buried in a common cemetery after death.

The high aging of the footbasin society makes most of the elderly afraid that they will die alone, and they will call their friends and partners to sign up for a common cemetery - a shared grave.

Spend the last days together before death and choose a good "partner" for the afterlife. In recent years, religious groups, corporations, and non-profit organizations have all started to operate common cemeteries.

In China, this shared tomb is a rare occurrence.

Some people say that husband and wife are buried together, no...... Here we are talking about good friends in life and good grave friends after death...... You can't generalize.

"Grave friends" gatherings are quietly popular, and they are growing rapidly. Older people talk freely at the gatherings, about family, sickness, and funerals, because they are going to die together in the future, and they are very close to each other, some even more than relatives.

Most of the elderly no longer feel lonely after attending the "Grave Buddies" gathering. And the content of the party is colorful and rich - traveling, dining, singing, dancing, playing cards, etc.

The elderly who feel lonely because their children are not around, because of the sympathetic communication with "grave friends", and the resonance caused by being buried together, allows them to calmly face the imminent death, no longer afraid, panicked and confused.

Some people say that some people are not afraid of death, but where are people who are not afraid of death, afraid of the unknown after death, afraid of loneliness after death.

The rise and rapid development of "grave friends" among the elderly in the footbasin society is due to the increasing number of elderly single people caused by the longevity of the footbasin people, and the reluctance of the children of some elderly people to bear the burden of the elderly.

Many single elderly people have never married, or are divorced, widowed, or "divorced".

According to the latest survey by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 1 in 10 men over the age of 65 is single.

Older women with footbaths are more interested than men in finding like-minded grave friends, because it is often more difficult for single women to enter the family cemetery than men in the footbasin.

With such a need, the "end-of-life note" was born.

"Dying notes" are to write down the funeral, cemetery requirements, and hopes before death into a notebook to explain to the family when they are still conscious.

Because, the footbasin people do not think that death is a taboo thing.

Many young people have also begun to accept the idea of writing "end-of-life notes".

There are also a number of websites that guide people in writing "end-of-life notes".

Birth, old age, sickness and death are the natural laws that everyone must face. It can be said to be a positive, natural choice.

Okay, after talking about the background of this grave friend, let's start the story.

Ozawa remembered that he was divorced and cut off contact with his mother's family, if he died alone like this, it would be so desolate, so lonely!

Leah looked at the grave under the cherry blossom tree, and also remembered that her daughter had been married and had only returned once in a long time.

There is such a grave friend, it seems that he is not alone after death.

It was raining in the sky, and Leah didn't have an umbrella, so Ozawa took the initiative to hold an umbrella for Leah.

"Really, the weather forecast is not accurate, but it's good to have you, otherwise you would have to catch a cold. Thank you," Leah complained about the damn weather.

"You're welcome, we're grave friends." Ozawa said happily.

"Yes, yes, grave friends...... Grave friend ......," Leah replied with a smile on her face.

Ozawa sends Leah home, then bounces and hums a little song and leaves.

The next day, Leah came to Ozawa's place of work on the pretext of stopping by.

Brought a meatloaf, and Ozawa said thank you.

Leah replied with Ozawa: "Aren't we grave friends!"

Ozawa smiled but didn't say anything, but his heart was still quite warm.

At the end of the evening, Leah stopped Ozawa and invited her to dinner.

When the two of them had dinner, they had a good conversation.

Leah claims that she lives alone in Dabieye, and she has to clean up for a day, and she can't do anything when she's alone, but now she has a thousand aunts, so that the two of them can go out and walk around together more in the future, and then enjoy the rest of their lives.

Sure enough, the next day, Ozawa deliberately put on a new set of clothes, which matched Leah's outfit.

How to put it, it's a bit like a couple's outfit.

Ozawa gave Leah a scarf, and Leah gave Ozawa a pearl necklace.

The two went to the movie hand in hand, and although the people around them cast strange eyes, the two didn't care at all.

After watching the movie, Leah said that there was a beautiful Crazy Horse show this week.

Ozawa thought for a while, shook his head and refused, the company organized team building that day, and it seemed that there was no time.

Leah's expression was a little unhappy, but she still didn't say anything.

On the day of the team building, Ozawa watched the bus follow a somewhat familiar car.

Shaking his head, Ozawa felt that he might be dazzled!

When he arrived, Ozawa looked at Leah in surprise.

"Hey, Ozawa, you're here too, I'll pick strawberries here and eat them at home." Leah smiled.

Ozawa felt a chill down his spine, this ...... This......

I couldn't say a complete sentence for a while.

When soaking in the hot springs, Leah and a few of Ozawa's colleagues chatted about speculation.

Laughing from time to time, laughing from time to time.

Ozawa felt strange in his heart, but it was difficult to open his words.

One day, Ozawa was walking home from work, and a young man with red hair drove a sports car not only fast, but even ran a red light.

When passing through the zebra crossing, still do not slow down.

I almost bumped into Ozawa, but luckily Leah appeared, otherwise it would have been another story.

"If you want to die, get away, Yaga ......"

Leah remembered the license plate number, and then looked at Ozawa with a smile: "Good grave friend, are you okay?"

Ozawa shook his head with palpitations, just a little frightened.

The next day, Hongmao's car was scrapped, the car was still rented by him, and the place where the incident occurred was not monitored, which is unreasonable.

And when Ozawa came home from work, he saw the door open, and thought he had entered the thief, so he quietly slipped into his house with a stick from the door, only to find out that it was Leah who brought someone to install an air conditioner and water heater in her room...

Ozawa was annoyed at the time: "These are all costly, who asked you to pretend?"

"We're not grave friends, what's yours is mine, what's mine is yours, I'll pay for the installation, and I've been paying the water and electricity bills for ten years." Leah spoke.

Ozawa opened her mouth, but she wanted to stop talking, and she was speechless.

When he went to work at the company another day, Ozawa told his colleagues about it.

The colleague said to return the money to her quickly, as for the necklace, it is not a precious item, and it is okay to sell it to him.

My colleague took the necklace at a low price and brought it himself.

Ozawa took the money and came to Leah's house to pay it back.

Where is this big villa, it is clearly a dilapidated small bungalow, a precarious and dilapidated house.

After asking the neighbors, I learned that Leah had no daughter, and this was the first time I had seen someone come looking for her.

At this time, Ozawa's phone rang: "Ozawa, Yua is dead, and the cause of death is that the pearl necklace tightened her neck and suffocated to death."

The mobile phone in Ozawa's hand fell unconsciously, reacted, and immediately called the cemetery company, she wanted to terminate the contract, although she had cancer, but she already knew that it could be cured, insignificant, and she wanted to live a few more years.

"Good grave friends, walk together for the rest of your life." Leah's voice came faintly.

Ozawa turned around, and Leah walked over with a knife with a weird smile.

One stabbed Ozawa, one stabbed himself.

Suicide and killing him were completed in an instant.

The two were buried together as they wished.

Bai Ze shuddered, this damn and perverted friendship.

Nanako was dumbfounded, she had long known that there were grave friends in the footbasin, but she didn't expect that there would be such a deformed friendship.

"Anyway, Nanako, the footbasin is seriously aging, what do you think?" Bai Ze asked Nana Ziti.

"Thoughts? Wadasi sees the job opportunity challenge: Young people need to take on more work due to an ageing population that leads to an increase in retirements, increasing job pressure.

Increased dependency burden: As the population ages, more and more older people rely on social benefits and financial support for their children, increasing the burden of dependency on younger people and potentially hindering career development and personal asset accumulation1.

Low fertility impact: Low fertility leads to slow population growth, labor market shortages, and increased youth unemployment, which negatively impacts the economy.

Economic downturn affects employment: Aging leads to lower savings rates, reduced labor supply, lower labor force participation rates, and lower economic demand, which may lead to wage cuts, layoffs, and unemployment.

In addition, an ageing society also has an impact on young people's family pressures, socio-economic development, and so on. Nanako talked eloquently.

"That's right, even if there is pressure, the footbasin man has to live under pressure, if he can't live, he can only ......" Bai Ze smiled at the corner of his mouth, and his smile was a little obscene.

After Bai Ze finished speaking, another voice remembered.

This is a half-split story, Sakurai and Ryoko are a pair of good friends.

I met in a shopping room, and the delicious cake was too expensive, and it was really inappropriate for one person to buy it.

And two people working together to buy it will not waste it and save money.

From then on, the two of them had half of everything, and even their clothes were changed.

Some people will ask, if two people like a man at the same time, what about the man?

It's also one person for one night???

It would be a big mistake to think so.

Ryoko and Sakurai fall in love with a man at the same time.

The man hesitated, nostalgic and forgot to return between the two women.

And never tired of it, complacent.

One day, Ryoko was holding a box, which was very large.

"Sakurai, the two of us have always been one and a half, this man, half of you and half of me." Ryoko opens the box, revealing a body that has been cut in half.

Sakurai has a chill down his spine and reports Ryoko.

Ryoko learns the news and dies with Sakurai.

Bai Ze looked at it stunned, so ...... Good pervert.