Buried, burned or ‘breaking bad’?

dLockers said:
Are we going to glance past the 'religious case' and let you have that one as a valid answer? :cry: :D
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The 3 Abrahamic religions are generally against crematorium because it is destroying the body, which is against God.

So it depends how religious you are.

Decades ago all my extended family bought burial plots. There are multi coffin plots. So if your parents bought a 6 coffin plot then you're already sorted :)
 
Donating one's body to medical science has taken a bit of a hit I would imagine as news came out of various facilities selling body parts to, err, somewhat odd individuals presumably for their macabre amusement.
 
Chris Wilson said:
I mentioned this in another thread just now, the lack of burial grounds has apparently instigated the search for novel ways of rendering our dead down like a horse for glue.
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To be honest, we should start looking at exhuming very old graves. The graveyard not too far from us has some headstones that date back to the 1600/1700s from what I can recall seeing. You're probably talking of 10+ generations (assuming the generational link survived) between then and now. So these graves haven't had genuine visitors for at least 2-3 centuries, it's absolutely nuts to think that it's a plot of land that will forever be occupied.

Admittedly it's a nice piece of history, but it doesn't need to be forgotten about, and doesn't need to be remember with a large taken plot. Any exhumed graves could have a plaque somewhere at the end of the row or something listing all those who were previously buried.
 
Semple said:
To be honest, we should start looking at exhuming very old graves. The graveyard not too far from us has some headstones that date back to the 1600/1700s from what I can recall seeing. You're probably talking of 10+ generations (assuming the generational link survived) between then and now. So these graves haven't had genuine visitors for at least 2-3 centuries, it's absolutely nuts to think that it's a plot of land that will forever be occupied.

Admittedly it's a nice piece of history, but it doesn't need to be forgotten about, and doesn't need to be remember with a large taken plot. Any exhumed graves could have a plaque somewhere at the end of the row or something listing all those who were previously buried.
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I thought graves were sold with leases attached (at least in modern times) and once the lease expires, the landowner is free to do with it what they please. If that is the case, it might explain why graves of notable people remain or those buried hundreds of years ago who may have actually owned the land they're buried on rather than leased it.
 
All this talk of burials and now one of the dogs has died, he'd been very ill for a while with heart trouble, so it was no huge shock, but needless to say I am burying him and not rendering him down in a pot.
 
I believe there is a difference between church land and council land.
Council land IIRC is a 99 year lease. The assumption I guess is that after 99 years non one is likely to decide to pay for another 99.

I am very unconvinced with burying people on private land.

Imagine viewing a house. "Lot of raised beds in the back garden?"
"Yeah thats 3 generations of our family, grow good runner beans though" ;)
 
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Reminds me of a dark thought someone told me at a pub ( slightly altered for todays people , yes that person has visited jail a few times )

I don’t want my death to morned , I wanted my death to be weaponised . All this cremation/burying stuff is dreary . You get buried some, random priest says some junk and everyone goes home and forgets about you . I am gonna go out in style .
I want my body to be covered in cooking oil , attached to a catapult and fired into the front room of boris Johnson. There , that’s how you have a proper britexit

- yes his next trial is next week,
 
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