Death

[Noth43]

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.

[Mamyalynne]

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.

[Wharton]

Contact your nearest university and enquire about 'whole body' donation. If accepted you will be neither buried nor cremated....for 3 years anyway....and there will be a record of your death. The universities hold memorial services (not religious) for donors every year.

[NOX]

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.

[Zeuhl]

/I'd rather be found in a few hundred years time and there being some record of my existence/

Sorry - Paupers' graves are unmarked

[Noth43]

Zeuhl, King Richard III
Just saying.

[wimp]

if your council have burials in your area you are entitled to a basic funeral which your authority will pay for.But if cremation is the prosedure in your area they will use that becouse it is cheaper than a burial!