Cyprus finally gets its first crematorium — 25 years in the making

For nearly 25 years, Maureen Watt watched families in Cyprus bury their loved ones against their wishes. A Scottish funeral director who has lived on the island for 21 years, she kept hearing the same thing from the British, German, Dutch and other non-Orthodox communities she served: there is no crematorium here.

She spent the better part of two decades pushing, lobbying and petitioning to change that. She conducted thousands of funerals along the way and watched families navigate a system...