Big Ed Posted February 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Thanks for all the suggestions. It appears that if you are buried in your own garden buyers can have you exhumed and buried in a graveyard. Having avoided crowds I don't want to end up in one for eternity, I'll stick to cremation.Keep suggestions coming.As the trad jazz song says "You'll never get to heaven in an old Ford car, an old ford car won't get that far"I'll keep following my own line of enquiries and see what I can earth up and post any results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 give yourself to science. free crem after they have finished with you. This is what I wish to be done with me after they've salvaged whatever good might be left in me for organ donation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 give yourself to science. free crem after they have finished with you. This is what I wish to be done with me after they've salvaged whatever good might be left in me for organ donation.I already checked out that option, the medical schools don't want you, wont have you unless you are complete, they wont accept a friend of mine because she's had a hysterectomy. It's a toss up which you think is more important, donating your organs to help folk who are living now, or giving novice surgeons something to practice on to help future generations.Big EdIt appears that if you are buried in your own garden buyers can have you exhumed and buried in a graveyard. I doubt that, do you have a citation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 they probably could with a reasonable cause. according to the old os maps either we have an old grave yard or our neighbour does in there field.hopefully you will have a very long life in which case you won't be any use for donating parts. you would also need to be near a transplant centre so its safe to bet your bits would get passed up. how about setting up a green burial concept. plus crem is not the cleanest way of getting rid of a body. now seagulls would be quite quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ed Posted February 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Poseidon: I'll do some digging and find info again; it's been a few years since last I looked. From what I remember; the burial will need to be recorded in the property's title deeds and put to land registry. If a new propertyowner wishes to turn your burialplot into a tattiefield he can quite easily apply to have your body exhumed and transferred to a graveyard and you end up exactly in the place you have been trying to avoid all along! If, of course, I am wrong on this than I will certainly be buried in my own garden!!!! It will be the cheapest option, no doubt. I hope you are right! Give me a day or 2 to look it up. Us 'Oldies' take a while to do these things...... Paulb: I think if you seriously looked at the problem rather than making silly and imature remarks about sea gulls you would find that there is not a quickfix and easycut answer. Some folks actually take this subjectmatter rather seriously. I do sincerely hope you deal with any human remains you find on your land in a dignified and highly responsible manner. Or do you throw the bones to the dug? In fact, should the find of those remains not be reported to the police? It does not matter if the deceased was religious or not, their remains deserve to be treated with respect! I am fully aware that cremation is not a green and environmentally acceptable option, but thank you for pointing it out. All I want is to remain and stay on the bit of land I have called 'home'. Is that hard to understand? I do not want to be dug up and transferred to some cemetary a few months down the line. As said before, I will keep looking for the right solution and let the ones seriously interested know my findings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 ......whats wrong with the graveyards. Far too many permanent residents there already, crowds disagree with me. Besides, there are too many there I'd fallen out with by the time they went there, or they me. A truce would not be an option within such a confined space, and a continuation of hostilities doesn't bear thinking about. Nah, bury my brucks sumwye idda toon it dusna grow weel, I'll mebbe green up da girse fur a twartree yeer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Well said Big Ed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 being serious now. you may want to be buried on your land but why do you think people 10,20 or 30 years down the line would want your body on there land. its easy to think about what you want but is it fair on the other people. i used to work in a graveyard as a youth. you do get the odd bone popping up now and again as then it would be returned to the ground with respect. yes i would call the police if a body was dug up im sure you have to. the bones i was talking about were animals. what impact would your body have on the resale value of the property. it would not matter to you but it could on those that follow. if you were married it would vertually chain your partner to the same house for the rest of there lives. is that fare. in all seriousness its a difficult choice. you either end up in a graveyard or in a crem. have a look at the green option it really maybe the best choice. if the put you under a tree your sure not to have near neigbours.your right ghost its amazing the population density of an old council graveyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ed Posted February 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 PaulB, you have mentioned all my arguments for a cremation. I do not have any family to consider in this, so that would theoretcially make burial at home easier, but I am not sure whether that would really stay my final resting place...... In that respect a cremation is the far better option, I like it's 'finality' to it. Scattered on the wind and I am gone, yet still in the place I love best. It is just the costs and logistics involved which I want to sort out while I still can and having been a tight-fisted old Scrouge for so long I intend to just go for the cheapest no frills or pomp and circumstance option. There is nobody to send me off and wave Good-Bye so why fork out for all the hidden extras that hike up the final bill? When you mentioned an old graveyard in your or your neighbour's field according to OS maps I assumed it to be a human graveyard, not a midden. My mistake. My apologies if I impleyed you would treat human remains disrespectfully. They are wasting money on so many daft schemes, why can't they build a small crematorium for Shetland and hook it up to the District Heating? Or heat one of their White Elephants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 When you mentioned an old graveyard in your or your neighbour's field according to OS maps I assumed it to be a human graveyard, not a midden. My mistake. My apologies if I impleyed you would treat human remains disrespectfullyno your right there is a human one but ive not found any yet. just the odd sheep in the veg patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 I wish somebody with a spare bit of land would set up a woodland burial sight here, there are 17 in Scotland including Cothiemuir Hill near Aberdeen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 It is allot of work. We have been trying get one here, we have the land. We have to do environmental studies, look at water courses, who will pay for it, we had a newt sighting so that set us back, agree prices and T&Cs. And, you need a wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 And, you need a wood.Plant a body and a tree on top, eventually you have a wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
righter Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 My son is buried here on our croft,he died september 2009. We already knew that we were going to be buried here,so We knew what the law said. we informed environmental health as a matter of courtesy, but there was no need in law as this is private land. We are not aware of any requirement to mark on maps or inform the land registry,and have not done so....someone may correct me on this. This croft will be passed to our daughter,who will know where our graves are...after that...we don`t much care,we will return one way or the other to the ground(even if someone digs us up in the future) we used a cardboard coffin,and we have made a rock cairn over the grave. Unfortunately,since my son died south,we also had to buy a wooden coffin for use on the boat,however they will carry a body free.And we had to pay a funeral director to handle procedures,because initially we were too far away. we hired a van to bring the coffin back,and from this end an estate car was used.As you can tell,we already felt strongly about a DIY funeral,and knew the law etc...but obviously we did not expect to have to bury our own child. We have felt that doing this for ourselves was a comfort,and in keeping with our beliefs and philosophies...its not for eveyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Righter, that is a lovely thing you have done. I am full of admiration and think you made a beautiful choice for your son's last resting place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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