Let Me Stand Inside Your Fire

South Koreans are scrambling to incinerate their dead like never before, a trend that has forced the government to revise the law and allow funeral homes to cremate bodies, rather than ship them to one of only four crematoriums in the entire nation. That certainly seems like a much-needed legal step, given the recent increase in South Korea's cremation rate:

According to the Health Ministry, the nation's cremation rate for 2008 marked 61.9 percent, up from 27.5 percent 10 years ago.

That stat ...