The county government of Nakuru has advised residents to consider cremating their loved ones due to lack of space in cemeteries.
County Public Health chief officer Samuel Kingori issued the proposal saying both the Nakuru North and Naivasha cemeteries are full.
Kingori added that efforts to get alternative land to set up other cemeteries had proved futile, as residents were not willing to live next to graveyards or have their land border cemeteries.
He added that cemeteries could also not be set up next to water bodies as that could result in pollution.
The proposal, however, is likely to elicit mixed reactions in the cosmopolitan county.
Currently a burial space goes for about Sh20,000 in some sections of the cemeteries, with the southern part charging a slightly lower fee of Sh3,000.