A Lot To Be Said For Cremation

[retrocop]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/13/husbands-coffin-dropped-funeral-exposing-body-hundreds-mourners-10911775/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly.

A tragic accident and upsetting for the children.
All the grief and anguish and getting a life back together though. It's not about the money is It?

//Debbie said: ‘It means after all we’ve been through me and my children have ended up with just over £5,000 each. It’s an absolute insult. ‘All I’ve wanted is justice for my husband. It has not, and never will be, about the money. But my family has been through hell the past four years and Clark Pearson needed to realise what they have done to us.//

[dannyk13]

Retro, a cremation happens after the funeral.

[pixie374]

A horrible incident for the family, and I doubt money would make any difference. A sincere apology would have been better (assuming they supplied the pallbearers). Sadly, accidents happen, and although I suspect this is very rare, it would have been upsetting. I am not sure what more they want now, as it can't be undone.

[spathiphyllum]

"the pallbearers responsible fled the scene leaving the couple’s children to leap into the plot to recover Gavin’s body."

What The Funicular.

[pixie374]

It doesn't, Danny?

[spathiphyllum]

Pixie, yes accidents happen, but what happens after the accident is what defines a person and the situation.

[spathiphyllum]

All the funerals i've been to (buried or cremation) there is a service, the body is then transported to the crematorium or the burial spot.

The coffin or body could be dropped during the service.

In this article, they dropped the coffin as it was being lowered into the ground.

[ummmm]

And so does a burial, danny! Less chance of dropping a coffin at a cremation though.

[ichkeria]

Cremations surely do happen after funerals. Any I have ever been to anyway.

[pixie374]

Partly, spath. I assume the pallbearers were employed by the funeral directors, and weren't relatives. It is hard to believe they ran off at that point!

[pixie374]

I see, sorry... Danny was referring to the service part x

[Old_Geezer]

Seems they do realise, as they've compensated. Horrible, unfortunate, but accidental and bearers panicked. Nothing is going to change what happened but nett £5k each should allow them to move on.

[ummmm]

Cremations I've been to the coffin is placed at the front, a service takes place and then the curtains close as the coffin is taken away on some sort of belt thing.

Burial - the coffin is at the front of the church and is carried out and taken to the cemetery.

Running off...I find that hard to believe.

[pixie374]

In both, I have seen the coffin walked in with pallbearers. A "drop" is possible with either.

[pixie374]

In fact, an elderly man trying to pay a tribute at my grandad's funeral, collapsed, and only just missed knocking over the coffin.
I just remember my dad saying "that could have got very confusing!"

[davebro]

Have the extinction rebel mob not started barricading crematoria yet?

[agchristie]

Pallbearers doing a runner?

Wowser, they should bring back internment for them!

('H' block for 'hopeless')

[pixie374]

Not yet, I think. At one time it was genuinely believed that cremation was more environmentally-friendly, as it takes up less room. I think people have only really considered it properly since.

[hc4361]

The last two funerals that I have been to have been service only with the cremations occurring earlier in the day attended by close family only.
I wonder if this a new trend? Early morning cremations are considerably cheaper, in my area anyway. These are usually bagged by the 'direct to crem without a serive' providers.

[retrocop]

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Retro, a cremation happens after the funeral.

This was an internment. The coffin was dropped in the grave having been carried from the byre in the church I assume. If the coffin had been placed on the byre in a crem it would of moved off mechanically behind closed curtains and no physical manpower involved.

What was the undertaker's name Bodgit & Leggit ?

[spathiphyllum]

Two of the recent funerals i've been to have been natural burial / Woodland burials