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nailit | 19:02 Tue 06th Oct 2015 | ChatterBank
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Is it possible to have a bodyless funeral? (ie, have a service but let the state dispose of the cadaver)?
Personally I find funerals a rip off. Ive got no money/insurance to bury myself with and wouldnt want (or expect) my family to pay for my cremation.
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Don't go for burial at sea nalit! The last one I heard of 3 Irish gravediggers were drowned !
20:09 Tue 06th Oct 2015
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sorry, meant put this in B&S, never mind...
Leave your body to medical science.
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//Leave your body to medical science.//
Asked my GP about this some years ago and apparently they are quiet picky as to what bodies they will accept.
You could have a memorial service.
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//You could have a memorial service//

What about my corpse?
You asked about a bodyless funeral. Presumably, you would have found some way of disposing of the corpse, to medical research or something similar.
Why should 'the state' have to dispose of your body?
Nobody is ever obliged to arrange a funeral. If nobody comes forward to arrange your funeral (possibly because you've told them not to) the local authority will be obliged to arrange a basic one. They can then seek to recover the costs from your estate but, if you died without leaving anything of value, they couldn't seek to get the money from your relatives (or from anyone else); the council would have to foot the bill.

Your family and friend could then hold a memorial service, totally separately, if they chose to do so.
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//Why should 'the state' have to dispose of your body?//
Because I havnt got the money to dispose of it.
Surely it wouldnt be to difficult/expensive to throw my cadaver in a furnace along with some removed limbs and various other body parts?
I have decided to have a funeral and be buried. This is solely for the benefit of all those who would love to pish on my grave. Mustn't disappoint them!
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Thank you Buen.
///Nobody is ever obliged to arrange a funeral. If nobody comes forward to arrange your funeral (possibly because you've told them not to) the local authority will be obliged to arrange a basic one.///
What would that involve then? would that be a religious service?
From the Leeds Council website (but it's similar elsewhere):
"Whenever the religious views of the deceased are known, the funeral is arranged according​ly.

Most funerals are burials unless members of the family request a cremation, or unless the person’s wish to be cremated has been expressed in a signed, written statement.

A public health funeral arranged by Leeds City Council includes the following:

Collection of the deceased
Coffin and linings
Gown and preparation of the deceased for viewing
Hearse and bearers for funeral
Funeral Director's arrangement and attendance at the funeral
Burial or cremation fee
Minister of specified faith
Funeral notice (placed by the funeral directors)
Flowers​"
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very helpful Buen, thank you.
I have said on here several times that it is perfectly legal just to have the body delivered direct to the back door of the crematorium and fed straight into the oven with no ceremony at all.
A coffin is not necessary either just a shroud or a body bag. You do not need a hearse a man with a van or someone with a big estate car can deliver the body.
This is the cheapest way to legally dispose of a body
Death certificate and cremation clearance certificate say £35.
Van to the crem another £35 , cremation fee around £300 , body bag £11 on eBay.( I intend buying a bulk pack of 50 body bags from eBay USA , keeping one and selling the rest, the profit should pay for my cremation, you can get them for £2 each in bulk from USA)
You should get change out of £400.
Then get a relative who is on benefit or pension to apply for a funeral grant £1200 ! That leaves at least £800 for a p*** up at my local boozer in memory.
Leave a will and ask for a sea burial
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////That leaves at least £800 for a p*** up at my local boozer in memory. ///
Ah! Now THAT sounds more like it...
I just remember the price of my dads funeral some years ago and thinking what a rip off.
um I think the executor ( if there is one and if there is a will blah blah blah ) is obliged as a duty to dispose of the body.,

If you remember the Helen Smith case ( nurse falls off balcony in Saudi at a alcohol party ) I thought the father was taken to court to force him to remate /bury the body

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06242
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//Leave a will and ask for a sea burial//

Ive had a few people in life that have expressed a desire to dance on my grave when Im dead....A sea burial would be ideal.

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