Garden burial - How do you want to go?

[steveo]

Please don't send flowers, I'll be around for a while yet. I was made curious by Billy Connolly's TV programme.

To be buried in a garden, all you need is permission from the freeholder.

And a (biodegradable) sack

That's it

[DulwichFox]

steveo Wrote:

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> Please don't send flowers, I'll be around for a

> while yet. I was made curious by Billy Connolly's

> TV programme.

>

> All you need is permission from the freeholder.

>

And a bin bag will suffice.

> That's it

I think a Biodegradable Sack would be greener. :)

Foxy

[Jah Lush]

Get cremated and get your ashes scattered in the garden. Job done.

[steveo]

For bin bag read biodegradable sack of course

I don't like crematoria (especially when I'm the guest of honour) and I don't like the services, and I don't want to be burned.

I'd quite like to be left out in the desert but that might be tricky

[Alan Medic]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Get cremated and get your ashes scattered in the

> garden. Job done.

How are you going to rise on the last day then?

[Salsaboy]

I want to be buried in a tree so that people can look up to me when I'm dead.

[Robert Poste's Child]

There's something rather vulgar about a crematorium. The decor's usually somewhere between a Travelodge and a Harvester. Not a good note to end on.

[ponderwoman]

You do have to apply and register the site, otherwise future ambitious gardeners would be getting the police far too excited.

I fancied a 'bring a stick and bottle' party for a home cremation (rurally, bearing in mind greasy smuts on the neighbours washing) but apparently thats a no no.

Left on a hill for the vultures lunch, (I like being useful) but sadly that wouldn't work here.

[PeckhamRose]

NHS have saved my life so many times that my body's going to the London Anatomy Office. They may reject it of course (cancer / amputations and various other problems are not suitable bodies for them), in which case unattended cremation, because either way the money will behind the bar at the Phoenix (clever, eh) for the memorial/celebration/laugh.

[steveo]

ponderwoman Wrote:

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> You do have to apply and register the site,

> otherwise future ambitious gardeners would be

> getting the police far too excited.

Apply and register to, and with whom?

[ponderwoman]

Unusually obvious for government bureaucracy, you apply to the Register of Births and Deaths. Useful info on the Natural Death Centre.

[steveo]

Word is to avoid bureaucracy altogether. If they get wind of it they say no. So don't involve them.

[ponderwoman]

Yes, I've long since given up the inclination to sign on the dotted line for anything official.

Forgot to mention, you can be feeze dried then vibrated into tiny particles which you can incoporate straight into the topsoil, without the need for large hole digging or cost of tomato fertizer. This will be appreciated by anyone concerned who was also planning on attending your outgoing do without a back thats done some extreme digging.

This is motivated by my severe lack of fondness for all the usual arrangements.

[PeckhamRose]

Love it. Never heard of that one ponderwoman. Thanks for sharing. Now, how to get a freeze drier!