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I Didnt Know This Was Legal.

tommy.irene — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:12:40 GMT

Would you bury your loved one in your garden? Devoted widow and widower BOTH did this week (but what happens when they move house?)

Patricia Waters did not want husband Eddie to be buried in a graveyard
So she hired undertakers to bury him in her back garden in Kidderminster
After Catholic priest failed to turn up widow, 81, conducted service herself

Two grieving spouses who wished to keep their loved ones close, have buried their late partners in their own gardens.

Patricia Waters, 81, wanted to provide her husband with a truly personal send-off and has had him buried in the back garden of their home - and even conducted the funeral service herself.

Phillip Topham, 56, buried his wife the front garden of their home in Colwick, Nottingham, when she died from oesophageal cancer after 18 years by his side.

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al**bear — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:16:52 GMT

I've buried my Ex in back garden but I wouldn't be telling people about it

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al**bear — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:18:48 GMT

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tommy.irene — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:27:59 GMT

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welsh.goddess — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:47:27 GMT

always been legal, though I do beleive you have to have a special permission for it.

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blackburn_stevie — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:19:43 GMT

I think Al wants help from the Police in digging his garden over, lol.

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xtf70 — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:40:51 GMT

I should warn you now, they go through a LOT of wheelbarrows

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bankhaunter — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:38:33 GMT

@welsh.goddess wrote:
always been legal, though I do beleive you have to have a special permission for it.

Indeed you do have to get it cleared by the authorities.

Can't see it doing much for the value of the property though but perhaps if they were elderly, they didn't care that much.

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tommy.irene — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:22:26 GMT

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Can you be buried anywhere?

With spring in the air and nature coming back to life all around us, Sunday 18 April is, fittingly... National Day of the Dead. So in keeping with the funereal mood, we ask: Can you dig a grave anywhere?

For the late Barbara Cartland - recognised as the world's most prolific novelist - it wasn't a plot in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner beside Chaucer, Dickens and Hardy that she most wanted as her final resting place.

"Spring. Green.... black. Death!"

When she passed away a few weeks shy of her 99th birthday, she was planted in her back garden, beneath her favourite tree. Perry Como's I Believe played as her cardboard coffin was covered.

"People are always surprised to hear that it is quite a simple matter to bury someone on private land," says Michael Jarvis of the Natural Death Centre - organisers of National Day of the Dead.

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merehazle — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:09:13 GMT

Hard to believe this is allowed. I know ashes are allowed. No doubt you would have to have very special permission.

There's the water table to be considered, and obviously cemeteries have to consider this.

However my uncle FRANK is quite willing to bury anyone that annoys me, for free!

His view from the a tomb.

T.I.That was Bing Crosby. (but never mind, some other time ).

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bankhaunter — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:27:01 GMT

There's the water table to be considered, and obviously cemeteries have to consider this.
Burials should be at least 10 metres from any field drain or ditch draining to a water course, 30 metres of any spring or standing or running water and at least 50 metres away from any well, borehole or spring that supplies water for any use.
The burial site must comply with Environment Agency guidelines as failure to comply with these guidelines can lead to the body being exhumed.

http://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/content.asp?id=20311&language=

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mepixin12 — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:30:50 GMT

Economical....good......carbon footprint.....reduced....good.....cardboard box.... saving the Rain Forrest....good....hmm me 'finks a winner all round really

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margaret*e — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 07:41:18 GMT

Should save on those excessive funeral costs too.

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saasher2012 — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:26:52 GMT

Also very good for the roses! We have a green burial site around here, it covers all religions, you can choose to be buried in a shroud, cardboard box. There are no mounds mainly commemorative trees.

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the-geezer — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:00:25 GMT

http://www.funeralhelper.org/garden-burial.html