Do You Have To Be Buried In A Coffin?

[plowter]

Are there any rules that you have to be buried in a coffin?
Can you be buried in a shroud or in the bare buff?

[Sharingan]

You can be buried in a cardboard box- we buried my sort of God father in one of those, and we all drew pictures on the side of it, so I don't see why not.

[douglas9401]

How did your father qualify as a sort of God?

[Sharingan]

lol, no I was talking about the man who would have been my God father were we a Christian family but since we're not was a sort of 'extra' parent if anything had happened to my real parents, so 'sort of god father' seemed an apt term.

[gness]

Plowter..you can have a natural funeral..no embalming and biodegradable or cardboard coffin or shroud. Not sure about bare buff...
MrG was buried in a wicker coffin....bit like a picnic basket.

[plowter]

LOL douglas.

I was thinking of being buried in a roll of carpet, gangland style.
No hearse. White van pulls up at the cemetery gates. Two big lads in donkey jackets carry the carpet to the hole and chuck it in.
Probably cost about fifty quid or so.

[boxtops]

You've got to be buried in something approved -not sure that carpeting falls into that context. Go for a nice raffia coffin instead

[ethandron]

As I understand it, if you're buried in a natural burial ground you can be buried in a shroud or any other biodegradable material. Someone I know buried their mother wrapped in her bedspread.

[naomi24]

Oh, please! Think of the pallbearers!

[jno]

if you want gangland style they could cut off your head and leave it on an enemy's bed, only 20 quid extra.

[Canary42]

Surely gangland style would be feet in concrete and into the briny.

[DJHawkes]

you have to remember that if you intend coming back to haunt anyone you only have the clothes you are buried in and so bare buff might be abit shocking to whoever you choose to return to haunt.

[EDDIE51]

No need for a coffin at all a body bag is fine , the funeral directors will not like it though, they buy coffins in for £30-£40 and sell them for £700 to £2000 or even more.
Did you know it is fully legal to just deliver the body to the back door of the crematorium and have it disposed of with no ceremony at all? No need for a hearse a van or estate car will do. Once the death certificate is signed and the permission for cremation completed then you can just collect the body and deliver it to the crematorium in a body bag. You can get body bags on ebay for £1.50 each . So a fully legal cremation can cost as little as £80 . Get someone on benefits to arrange the cremation and apply for a funeral grant of £1200 , that leaves over £1000 to have a good p!ss up in memory of the departed. I am actually thinking of buying a bulk pack of 50 body bags , if I sell 49 of them it will make enough to pay for my cremation.

[gness]

Eddie...are those bags you are thinking of buying...one size fits all? Also, could they be customised.....say with a bit of bling? x

[EDDIE51]

Here you are , there is a reduction for bulk buying
http://www.barbermedical.com/emergency-services/body-bags-shrouds-id-bracelets/biodegradable-body-bags.html
Fully bio degradable and kind to the Environment ! which is more than you can say for a coffin which will be made of MDS fibreboard with a plastic laminate imitation wood finish and Polystyrene handles moulded and painted to look like brass !
Did you know the 'handles' on a coffin are just plastic stuck on ? that is why the pallbearers never pick up the coffin by the handles but 'shoulder it , if they tried to pick it up by the handles they would just pull them off !

[atalanta]

You absolutely can't have acoffin for a burial at sea. It would float. Ugh.
But there are rules and regulations for sea burial in ( or not in) certain places

[Fatlegs]

Gness that makes no sense at all! Why would you buy something for £1.50 and then make it look even tackier and cheaper? Remember this will be the last time your loved ones ever see you so surely you want to give them a nice happy image rather than an image that you were a cheapskate and was not all there.
Personally i want to go out in style, one of these will do!

http://www.oddee.com/item_96472.aspx

[askyourgran]

Patios seem to be popular, no need for anything except a cement mixer.

[gness]

Look here, Fatlegs....you haven't seen my bling! Isn't coke fattening?
But I don't think my family would be surprised to see me in a corkscrew.. ......;-) x
AYG...my patio..as you know...is full. x