I Didnt Know This Was Legal.

tommy.irene
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‎13-12-2013 10:12 AM

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.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522613/Would-bury-loved-garden.html#ixzz2nLewAyog 

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al**bear
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‎13-12-2013 10:16 AM

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

tommy.irene
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In response to al**bear

‎13-12-2013 10:27 AM

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welsh.goddess
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In response to tommy.irene

‎13-12-2013 10:47 AM

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

 

 

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blackburn_stevie
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In response to welsh.goddess

‎13-12-2013 11:19 AM

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

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xtf70
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In response to blackburn_stevie

‎13-12-2013 11:40 AM

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

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bankhaunter
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In response to welsh.goddess

‎13-12-2013 2:38 PM

@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
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In response to bankhaunter

‎13-12-2013 3:19 PM - edited ‎13-12-2013 3:22 PM


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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.

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"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
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In response to tommy.irene

‎13-12-2013 6:09 PM

 

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 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!

 

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  His view from the a tomb.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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bankhaunter
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In response to merehazle

‎13-12-2013 7:27 PM

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

‎13-12-2013 11:30 PM

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

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margaret*e
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In response to mepixin12

‎14-12-2013 7:40 AM - edited ‎14-12-2013 7:41 AM

Should save on those excessive funeral costs too.Woman LOL

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saasher2012
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In response to margaret*e

‎14-12-2013 9:26 AM

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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