You only live once ?

[Coastal Cruiser.]

I wasn’t sure whether to put a funny face to that !

Know what you mean
Could have got him a cheap coffin but he was worth more than money to me?

 

[Sundowners]

Surely Greta should be all over this ? Why waste the cost of burning a perfectly serviceable item, thereby causing CO2, when it could be re-cycled time after time.

Who says they aren’t.???

An aunt donated her body for science, no costs for a funeral other than a church service, you could miss that out for us, we aren’t FLT’s for nothing. ???

 

[Neil Bedwin]

To be fair, my family can do what they want. I won’t know about it. Do fancy a wicker coffin though.

Turns out wicker coffins are not green if you are going for cremation. They take more gas to incinerate everything to ashes as there is less combustible material.

 

[Nigel Tate]

Turns out wicker coffins are not green if you are going for cremation. They take more gas to incinerate everything to ashes as there is less combustible material.

Another one of my ideas gone up in smoke!

 

[westhamman]

I have looked at donating body to science, you had to pay for transportation to final destination, thought that was a cheek so changed my mind on that.
I want the cheapest cremation possible, cremator can do what they want with ashes.
However I'm dead i will not care, is the funeral for the living so that the grieving process can move on to the next step.

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[jockaneezer]

The Granddad of a friend of ours donated his body to science. His son hired a van, picked the body up from a morgue at Whitehaven and drove it somewhere over the North East to deliver him to a teaching facility. I can't remember if they had an actual funeral, but the university held a service of rememberance/thanksgiving in Durham Cathedral a few months later for all the families who had donated, it was attended by all the students who were "practicing" on the cadavers.
Coincidentally, a couple of years later, the friend's new girlfriend was training as a doctor at Glasgow and did all the dissecting stuff too, it's a small world !