What do I do with you when you die?

[Romilly]

I thought about a green burial but how much does it cost?
Sylviaann

It says on the Link that I posted I think. Cardboard coffins are about £55 I believe, - & of course you can decorate them as you please!

Romilly

[silvery]

It looks as though it's not just the cost of a coffin

from http://www.globalideasbank.org/w2go/WTG-4.HTML


The cost of a basic funeral
'A basic funeral now costs from £318.50 to £890, with an average cost of £585'

The New Natural Death Handbook survey found that a basic funeral now costs from £318.50 to £890, with an average of £585 - an increase of 10.4 per cent on the £530 figure for 1996. (Funeral directors are often not very keen to tell the public about their low end funerals. As a member of the public, you may have to use the magic words 'basic funeral as specified in your funeral code' to be told this low, low price. There will be no frills - no embalming and just a hearse without a following limousine.)
To this £585, which represents the funeral director's charges, need to be added the so-called 'disbursements' paid out on behalf of the client by the funeral director: the cremation fee (averaging £223), doctors' fees (£82) and minister's fee (normally £68), an average extra total for disbursements of £373 (assuming it is a cremation; burial in a Church of England churchyard, for instance, costs £119).
Thus the average complete cost for a basic funeral is currently £958.

digging and buying a burial plot - average cost £524 - from same source.

So all the extras and fees mount up quite considerably.

I'm with Sylviaann on the arrangements, though.   

[Gillg]

A green burial that I attended recently near Bristol had a coffin woven out of willow (I think).  The coffin was taken from the chapel to the grave by horse and cart.  Green graves have to be dug much deeper than a conventional grave for reasons that you might not want to think about, so look away now if you are squeamish.  The coffin deteriorates very quickly, leaving the body exposed, so it needs to be well below the gound in case it should surface over the years.   

[Romilly]

I wonder if you can be buried in your own garden, - is there any law against it?

Romilly

[Sylviaann]

It's clinical waste so you have to be careful

This is an interesting site http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/gardenburial.html

I back on to an ancient graveyard and there is a baby with my surname buried against the wall of my garden.  They could chuck my ashes over the wall!

Sylviaann

[Shropshire Lass]

I was under the impression that you cannot simply put ashes where you wish, I thought you needed some sort of permission.   I know that some people would say 'oh we would do it on the sly' but there are good reasons for these laws.

In some areas, like the top of Snowdon, the flora is being affected by the amount of ashes spread.  They change the composition of the soil and some rare plants are being affected.

[madpants]

In 'New Tricks' Jack has his wife Mary in the garden.

[genjen]

In 'New Tricks' Jack has his wife Mary in the garden.

Pssssssst.... He's not real - it's a story. 

[madpants]

 

LOL but surely they wouldn't have something like that if it was against the law?

but if you wanted to move who would buy a house with the previous owner buried in the garden? 

Would you dig them up and take them with you??