Funerals (Again..)

[nailit]

How can you die without having a funeral?
Ive decided that I really don't want a funeral when I go. I think that its all mostly a bit of a money making scam for the funeral directors etc.
Ive got no insurance to pay for my funeral when I shuffle of this mortal coil because I couldn't care less what happens to my left over flesh when I die. Put it in the bin for all I care. But I'm beginning to find all the sentimentality around funerals nauseaus. Sentimental rubbish.
How can I let it be known that I really couldn't care less (my wishes) what happens to my body when I'm dead and that I really don't want a funeral as such. And what will happen to my remains should my wishes be carried out? Would the state just incinerate them?

[hc4361]

Do as I'm doing - a direct to crem funeral with no service. The undertaker will put me in the cheapest possible coffin and deliver me to the crematorium in whatever vehicle is available. I will be cremated early in the morning because that is an unpopular time for cremations and many crematoriums charge less.
No mourners, no flowers, no plaque, no prayers.

[wolf63]

I have it written in my will that I want no funeral - straight to cremation.

[nailit]

hc4361, but even a coffin/vehicle/crem time, costs money.
Just don't see anymore why dying should cost anyone anything?

[Cloverjo]

Nailit, your remains have to be disposed of somehow. No one wants to find your body in a bin.

You could leave it to medical science to be practised on.

[nailit]

Clover, yes this is something that ive looked into but not all bodies are accepted.

[Barmaid]

Wolf putting funeral wishes in your will is extremely important since it often saves the bereaved having to struggle with decisions.

However, funeral wishes are not legally binding.

[hc4361]

Your dying doesn't cost anything - it's your disposal that costs. There is absolutely no reason why you can't be buried in your own garden.

[hc4361]

I've arranged and paid for mine, my wife has done the same.

[anneasquith]

Donate you're body to a university.

[nailit]

// There is absolutely no reason why you can't be buried in your own garden//
My neighbours wouldn't appreciate it hc. I live in a multi story block of flats ;-)

[hc4361]

No good under the floorboards, either, nailit. :(

[Barmaid]

lol HC.

I once saw a Will that said "no flowers, no fuss, any old box will do, just make perfectly sure that I am dead".

[nailit]

//However, funeral wishes are not legally binding. //
How come BM?

[tamborine]

Its free if youre destitute but as you have a son he might have to pay. Your corpse can be delivered in a body bag (by appointment) by any vehicle. Local council website have crem rates. A docs cert £70, is required by crematorium. Ashes left at crem are spread in gardens, by request, or held for 6months (chargeable to collector).

[hc4361]

If you die and nobody arranges your funeral or takes responsibility for doing so the state will indeed have you cremated. If you have any assets the costs will be recovered. I don't think it is fair for the council tax payer to foot the cost of your funeral, though, unless there is no alternative.
My council even charges me to dispose of certain types of rubbish at the tip.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah thx barmaid
I have put my wishes into a will
not sure if as an RC I can be interred as a proddie - but I have told my executors to cope with that as best they can

using my death as a damned good reason for those that are left to have an almighty poss up
( the sort of burnie/bury bit is deffo NOT a condition to entry to the booze party )

[nailit]

Anne not all uni's will accept all bodies.

[Barmaid]

That's just the law, Nailit. I think it comes down to the fact that there is no property in a body or human remains.

[hc4361]

Tambo, my local council will not accept a body bag or a shroud - the minimum is a cardboard coffin.
No family member can be forced to pay for the funeral unless he or she arranges it but the money will be taken from the deceased's estate wherever possible.

[tamborine]

Hc my son is in the business & this is planned for me.......my last smoke ;)