Dying without life Insurance

[BestisBest]

Hi, first post here so hopefully putting in the right section. OK, what happens to me, if I die without life insurance cover and no one who knows me, can afford a funeral?

P.S. I'm not planning on leaving this world anytime soon.

[ummmm]

The government will help.

[mccfluff]

i think the local council arrange it

[snags]

''i think the local council arrange it''

Yep... the wheelie bin is a marvelous thing...

[emeritus]

Used to be called a Paupers Funeral paid for by the Local Authority

[mccfluff]

i've asked them to pimp my wheelie bin up

[BestisBest]

snags said,

''i think the local council arrange it''

Yep... the wheelie bin is a marvelous thing...

As long as the lid is closed properly and the bin is placed in the right spot and facing south east lol

[snags]

fluffs... which size shall I order?

http://www.ukwheeliebins.com/wheelie-bins.html

[BestisBest]

Thanks for the replies, I might stick around here it sounds like fun!

[wolf63]

A normal wheelie bin or a special recycling one? You can get fined for using the wrong one.

The council will pay for a basic funeral if nobody else can pay.

[ummmm]

Make sure you have a thick skin if you enter CB :-)

welcome btw...

[mccfluff]

stupid, the biggest one obviously, i'm not giving up cake and i'm not dying till i can squash a full grown man with one butt cheek

errrrrm sorry bestis, looked on a couple of websites and does seem that if there is no-one else that the council have to step in to "dispose" of the body, by cremation usually

[wolf63]

http://www.wheeliegra...op/wheelie-patriotic/

but if you are going to go then go in style.

[snags]

Ok... the biggest one... will that be 'see thru' like that rather fetching rain mac of yours?

[bednobs]

even if you have no life insurance, most people have at least some assets that can be sold - furnuture, car, clothes etc which can go towards a funeral

[mccfluff]

nope i want it pimped up with all my avatars decorating it and i want hanson mmmmm bop playing out of really tinny speakers attached to the lid bit

[snags]

BestisBest... if you do decide to go the Wheelie bin route, make damn sure no one sees you being put in there... remember what happened to that woman and the cat...

[Dee Sa]

I think someone has to apply to DSS for help and they pay up to £1,000, but that wont cover the whole cost and I am not sure if it has to be repaid. If you are completely without kin then the council takes over, but having once gone to a paupers funeral and being the only mourner it was horrible and the priest/vicar was still muttering the words of the service as he was hurrying down the path to get. away.It upset me for months afterwards as the person who died was a lovely lady and deserved better.

[Buenchico]

Nobody is ever obliged to arrange a funeral for anyone else. Even if a multi-billionaire dies, leaving loads of relatives who are also multi-billionaires, none of them are obliged to arrange a funeral. When nobody wants to arrange a funeral, or there's simply nobody around to arrange one, the local council must arrange a basic funeral. If (like the multi-billionaire I mentioned) the deceased person left any money (or property which could be converted to money) the council could then seek to reclaim their costs from the estate of the deceased person. But where the deceased person left nothing the council has to bear the costs:
http://www.guardian.c...state-funded-funerals

Chris

[sandyRoe]

Rattle his bones over the stones
He's only a pauper nobody owns.