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Death
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Serious question about a serious thing. I've looked around and researched this to no avail, perhaps my mind has gone, perhaps I was looking in the wrong places.
When you pass on and you have no family or anyone that will miss you and die with no money I understand it's the local Councils legal obligation to throw you on the bonfire and up the chimney you go.
I don't want to be cremated, how and who do I contact the right authority to say I want to be buried instead?
Do most councils still do paupers graves or is it strictly furnace time?
I haven't been baptised and I'm not in the least bit religious so that might be problematical ,but I'd rather be found in a few hundred years time and there being some record of my existence other than simply cease to be.
When you pass on and you have no family or anyone that will miss you and die with no money I understand it's the local Councils legal obligation to throw you on the bonfire and up the chimney you go.
I don't want to be cremated, how and who do I contact the right authority to say I want to be buried instead?
Do most councils still do paupers graves or is it strictly furnace time?
I haven't been baptised and I'm not in the least bit religious so that might be problematical ,but I'd rather be found in a few hundred years time and there being some record of my existence other than simply cease to be.
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I am afraid that if you want a burial you will have to leave money and instructions , they cost more than cremations - cemeteries are full to bursting too. Perhaps not the reply you wanted and someone may prove me wrong.
14:12 Fri 08th Feb 2013
The most straightforward way to ensure this is to leave funds and arrange it with your solicitor (or prepay it with a funeral director) and then have a sheet of A4 stapled to your fridge door saying ' In the even of my death please contact:- and then whoever it is that you have arranged it with'.
A lady in our village has done exactly that ( quite weirds people out when they go in her kitchen), although the chances of someone dying 'round here without the village gossips spotting them is pretty remote anyway.
A lady in our village has done exactly that ( quite weirds people out when they go in her kitchen), although the chances of someone dying 'round here without the village gossips spotting them is pretty remote anyway.