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?

[pixie373]

My friend's mum was cremated in a cardboard "haribo" coffin.
I don't recommend the bbq, my ex-neighbours cremated their dead rabbit on a bonfire and it stank :-\

[hc4361]

If my friends and relatives were prepared to pack me in the coffin and take me to the crem, I'd do without the funeral directors.

[EDDIE51]

hc4361 An even better idea and my choice is to leave your body to a medical school for the student surgeons to practice on. That way you make a positive benefit to medicine and it gets rid of the body free. Once the students have finished cutting up your mortal remains the university arranges for disposal of what is left as clinical waste free of any charge at all.
There is a serious shortage of bodies for dissection and it is a big problem for medical schools . Lets face it a trainee surgeon has to practice on something.
I am also on the organ doner list to use any part of my body for transplants , so the students only get what the transplants do not use. Some one could get a bargain there is a little used brain up for grabs !
Actually, on a serious note there is a demand for brains especially for research into dementia and altzimers , they particularly need brains from people whose brains are 'normal' so as to see what changes have taken place in those who die of dementia /Altziemers

[EDDIE51]

Here you go
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=116