YEREVAN. - Issue of establishing crematories in Armenia becomes urgent, as Armenia has limited land areas and crematories help to avoid possible epidemics, head of hygienic and epidemic department of Ministry of Healthcare Aida Petikyan told the journalists on Wednesday.

“Corpse burning process is not common in Armenia. It is related to the mentality and traditions. However, state needs great deal of money to establish crematories,” she told and added though it is possible to bury another corpse 15 years later, crematories will be more helpful to avoid epidemics.
 
Another speaker of the conference chief specialist of the epidemic infectious and non infectious diseases department Liana Torosyan told that classical version of the funeral can always cause dangerous situations by spreading various infections through flies.

There are more than 14,000 crematories in the world, mainly in Christian countries. However, Armenian Apostolic Church is strictly against crematories and rejects to accept that practice.