WHY IS MY CITY SO DUMB

[I cast no maidens]

i have a massive problem wiht people dying n my city. whenever someone dies they just sit there rotting away forever. they don't get transported to a crematory or cematry despite the fact i have several avaliable and here is next to no traffic between the two place. it got to the point where i have been putting both types of death care next to the building where people die and it still isnt doing anything. to test if it was just me being impationt and it took half an hour of real time waiting at 3x speed untill they did anything. wanted to know if this was a bug or if there was something im doing wrong.

[grapplehoeker]

Be a smart mayor.
Learn why so many are dying and see what you can do about the cause. Or more importantly, be aware of how much you may or may not be responsible.

So, first you have to rule out the chance that so many dying is not due to unnatural causes such as water pollution. View your pollution overlay. Water pollution must be at 0% at all times for a healthy city. Just 1% is enough to cause citywide sickness and deaths.

If the deaths are due to natural causes, then that is a natural lifecycle of your population and the percentage of your population that are seniors, usually around 24%, is what you should provide sufficient deathcare services to handle.
You mention you have both crematoriums and cemeteries.
I would recommend you empty and get rid of the cemeteries as soon as you unlock crematoriums. You may keep a cemetery or two for the sake of appearances if you wish, but in that case just turn them off.

You also need to consider whether the seniors are dying en masse at one time, or is the rate of death even and steady. The way in which you zoned residential will be a significant influential factor. For more on that see here,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=425513385
Lastly, consider your traffic management. Hearses have to be able to reach all buildings that require their services and they have to be able to do that on time in order to do so efficiently. So, if you have any road congestion that may hinder them, then that needs to be resolved.
Hope that helps ;)

[ancienthighway]

As near as I can tell, services of all types operate on a first in, first out priority. Proximity makes no difference. With services being city wide, it's not unusual to see a hearse drive to a point that is on the other side of the city and through heavy traffic.

There is a mod named District Services 3.0 in the workshop. With this mod, service vehicles will only service the district they are located in. I haven't used it, so I can't say if it's worthwhile or not.

[nobleheretic]

Is the healthcare system fully funded? Check the cemetaries for how many vehicles are in use. Barring that, you could just drop a meteorite on the dead people.

"Sickness and death awaits us all. Stop pestering me."
https://imgur.com/a/SbpgA#ohUyDVf