 | 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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......................................................................................................................................................................................................... .................Im a 76 year old Nutcase.. TOMMY LOVES YOU ALL. .. I'm a committed atheist.
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