A drone flies over the vast burial grounds of the Songhe Cemetery in Shanghai. The cemetery was built in 1987 and is currently the target of criticism on China’s social media due to its horrendous „real estate prices.“ Anyone wishing to be laid to rest here has to pay the equivalent of up to 45,000 euros – and this for plots as small as 0.6 square meters. This means that the dead reside in the pagoda-decorated celebrity cemetery at prices six times higher than the living in the Huangpu district in the heart of the already very expensive metropolis.