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?

[DTCwordfan]

Beetroot sacks for my mater therefore - maybe overnight if she carries on like this evening!

[askyourgran]

Just a thought, all this warm weather you could do a DIY on the barbie (after the sausage and steak of course) then put the ashes in a nice bottle.

[Fatlegs]

Lol, gness well if you're dab hand at crafts and sewing then you can start practicing and see what response you get.

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[gness]

Mmmm wonder how well I would do at the next craft sale...Get your body bags here!....Blinged to order....
Why has the one you posted got a two way zip? ;-) x

[kawakiri]

There's always resomation to consider.

[askyourgran]

Do you mean exhumation or resurrection. kawakiri? Bit much if it's a patio job but Ok if they buy one of Gness's bling bags.

[kawakiri]

Or even promession.

[Sparkles62]

MIL was buried in a wicker coffin, as the hearse arrived, one of her grandchildren piped up with 'hey look, they have put Nana in the laundrey basket' . Lol

[EDDIE51]

cardboard coffins can be 'Bling' look at these
http://www.creativecoffins.com/
But still a lot more expensive than a body bag.

[Sparkles62]

My ex husband has left all his funeral details with me, and says that he thinks coffins are an incredible waste of money, he wants someone to make him one out of old crates, that should be fun. He also insists on NO vicar as he doesn't believe in God.

[EDDIE51]

Sparkles old crates will not do nor beetroot sacks DT, it has to be waterproof
to stop leaks of body fluids . Body bags are water/ fluid proof and only £6.80 each, even cardboard coffins are in the multi £100s range.

[askyourgran]

I went to a funeral recently of young man who didn't have any religion. His family didn't have a clergyman for the usual burial service at the crematorium, just a Cd player to play his favourite music throughout his life, and his younger brother doing the narrative. It was a very warm and natural event and a really nice way to say goodbye to him.

[EDDIE51]

It is virtually impossible for an ordinary person to buy a coffin , not illegal just that the coffin suppliers are VERY reluctant to let you know that they supply coffins for £50 to £100 and the funeral directors make up to 1,000% profit on them ! The actual coffin materials cost the coffin maker no more than £5 max!.
I know someone who wanted a coffin as a prop for a play , no one would sell them one they had to get a carpenter to make a mock up.

[Peter Pedant]

I vote Wicker

someone was buried in a wicker coffin.

Clearly if you are going for a christian burial - you have to conform to whatever the celebrant says. No grave goods and no pets.
and you cant bury someone wherever you will.
You need a licence

Gravestones - you may be limited ( I mean you have the general idea - Q. are ther rules you have to follow when you are buried A. yes) to your choice and of course the wording. To my Father - dead thank god - my God you were a pl++ker. er er. Murdered by the police is another no no

!906 wild willie someone insisted on exposing his child on a bed stead outside or near the local Welsh Chapel - that is now the subject of statute . You have to dispose of the body of the dead within a reasonable time - that is a duty on the executor of the estate

[Sparkles62]

Askyourgran, my friend was the same, I wondered how it was all going to go, with no Vicar, but it was a lovely, happy, service. X

[tamborine]

Jack the Hat (McVitie) is encased in a pillar supporting the Hammersmith flyover

[Peter Pedant]

so would you say immured rather than buried ?

Jack the hat I mean.

Wiki says buried at sea - I keep on getting confused with George Cornell.

or pilloried ?

[plowter]

I like the patio idea, askyourgran.
It would look so classy in a graveyard.

[hc4361]

I'm having a direct to crem service.
That means no 'hygiene' treatment (embalming); cardboard coffin; no hearse; no funeral service.

I will be stored in the morgue until the date of the cremation, then taken by funeral director either in the van or in the storage compartment of a hearse, delivered to the back door of the crematorium and cremated when they have a slot.

That's it.