garden burial

[ethandron]

would you buy a house with someone's body buried, legally, in the back garden?
would you like to be buried in your own back garden?
http://www.dailymail....neighbour-garden.html

[LoftyLottie]

No, I meant the furnace. The bones don't get ground up, they burn at such a heat that they burn right through and turn to ash, which then gets sifted out from other remains (such as the coffin (and flesh too I suppose).

[LoftyLottie]

I learnt all this from a young lady Funeral Director who lives in the next village to me.

[ethandron]

i'd prefer a sky burial but it's never going to happen so to be cremated and scattered to the four winds at a place that means a lot to me will be what actually happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

[LoftyLottie]

Well, all I want is for them to be sure I am dead before disposing of me. Ethandrol that Sky Burial involves being scavenged by birds!! Don't fancy that if I am still alive.

[rowanwitch]

freeze drying and crushed add to compost heap?

[LoftyLottie]

On that thought, I am now going off to a doctors appointment :o(

[albaqwerty]

Thanks Lotite, I'd love to know from where I got such guff info.

I'd go for a creamtion too and to be scattered in a place which holds special memories for me would be nice.

[LoftyLottie]

Mr LL is quite besotted with making large quantities of compost. We compost everything - so he probably would be quite happy to compost me as well!!

[Barmaid]

I can confirm the ash is very dense.

We went to "scatter" my ex MIL under cover of darkness (cos we were told we couldn't and that's what she wanted so we did it anyway). Unfortunately, as we started the "scattering" process, the wind got up.

When we arrived at the local hotel for our planned "knees up" to say goodbye to mum, I had to take my SIL to one side and explain that she ought to attend the ladies and remove her mother from her eyebrows.

The whole evening was hilarious. I am sure MIL might have found something funny in it.

[albaqwerty]

lol BM x

We scattered my late brother where we shouldn't have, the knees-up afterwards was a hoot and the poor waitress didn't know where to look after she asked what we were celebrating. My OH was mortified at our behaviour.
It's a celebration of the life of the loved one.

[Answerprancer]

I would be honoured to move into a house with a grave in the garden.
One of my housemate's ashes are interred in our back garden, every now and then we tidy the plot and tend to the weeds/flowers.

[carolegif]

I didn't realise you had to have DEFRA's permission to bury pets in the garden! I have therefore broken the law many times over the years in different houses.
Cat's, birds, hamsters, guinea pigs all gone in the garden with a tree or bush planted over them later.

[DTCwordfan]

ethandron, all I have to say about not having the ashes spread in one's garden, "Spineless."

[daffy654]

No, I want a woodland burial.

A back garden is not the place to bury anyone, if they sell the house and someone wants to put a pond in then the woman will have to be dug up and relocated, why should the new owners have to deal with that?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

My missus wants my ashes put in the egg timer so I keep on working!!

[DTCwordfan]

Well, what about those folk on "Escape to the Country" who get shown a nice converted church or chapel.

My mother and I went around the Baldhu two houses shown, and "the term residents" - well most of them were still there. The two conversions were spectacular but just lacking really nice fireplaces to make them warm and homely - come to thinl of it, perhaps an cremation oven could be installed, as a "feature."

The graveyard as a garden, though - great for Halloween night it must be said - could scare the kids rigid......

[Brenden]

Saw a programme on TV called sky burials in the Himalayas where the body is fed to the big birds - of course there is no earth to bury them in the mountains - do not fancy that, but can you not put the ashes in an urn in the garden and retrieve them if neccessary.

[joko]

not sure if id be too bothered, but most certainly wouldnt have an actual grave or marker there... it would have to be completely unmarked

id have no qualms about relocating the body if need be...

[Mosaic]

Did someone just say I needed Defra's permission to bury my pets in my garden?
So the goldfishes, budgies, guinea pigs, rabbits and cats mean I could do time?
Thanks for the warning - I'll grab a change of clothes and go on the run.

[rov1100]

Make sure you don't use a wooden coffin which could take centruries to dissolve. Better to use natural items like reed bushes and make sure its deep enough. You don't want a scavenger dog looking for bones.