Buried without coffin

Heard on Newstalk this morning that from next month it will be legal to be buried in Ireland without a coffin.
Definately a way to cut down on funeral expenses. Who needs a coffin anyway.
Next we should do away with the hearse and be allowed to arrive in a trailer or boot of the car.

efb

Fat Tony said to be delighted. And Sinn Fein

IM0

what so its illegal at the moment

IM0

IM0 wrote: »

what so its illegal at the moment

Yes apparently so. The new law is coming in to cater for the muslim community who should be buried in cloth and not a coffin.

mcwinning

I wouldn't mind not being buried in a coffin, I want my loved ones to be looked after when I'm gone so cutting down on funeral expenses seems like a good way of saving them some expense.

Legs.Eleven

Put me anywhere or do anything with me, even dress me up and live with me and pretend I'm your girlfriend to all your mates if that's floats your boat. I don't give a damn as I'm planning on being dead and thus not conscious.

TheBody

Totally agree with the posts above. Coffins are waste of money.

Duckworth_Luas

"How would you like to be buried?"
"Up to me balls in Bibi Baskin!"

IM0

TheBody wrote: »

Totally agree with the posts above. Coffins are waste of money.

epic post and username combination

IM0

TheBody wrote: »

Totally agree with the posts above. Coffins are waste of money.

and its not like they can be reused either

Creasy_bear

No coffin?? Sure that's madness.....me good suit would get destroyed!!!

Duggy747

Wrap me up in an old quilt and just lob me into the hole.

If you've any rubbish in your pockets you want to get rid of, like old tissues or chocolate wrappers, then throw that shìt in there too.

I'll be too dead to notice the lack of a coffin :pac:

Freddy Smelly

cremation for me

dont want a grave (why bother with the expense of buying a plot)
you can choose the be cremated without having to buy an expensive coffin.

kneemos

You'll need a coffin for the wake,ye pack of animals.

hardCopy

http://www.greengraveyard.com/

I'd quite like to be buried under a tree

Duff

I take it I'm the only one worried about zombies then?

Hoop66

I fancy the old "stick of dynamite up the bum and flung out of a plane over a major population centre" method meself.

Ah, the old traditions.

Banjo String

Bury me at sea where no murdered ghost can hunt me, if I rock upon the waves, no corpse can lie upon me!

holystungun9

I want a kind of cartoon treatment where my body is flattened out by some big old steam roller and then my flattened body gets laminated and put up as a mural on the gable end of a gaff like they do in the north (the gable end mural thing).

the_syco

IM0 wrote: »

and its not like they can be reused either

Well, yes and no. In the past, bodies would be put on show in an excellent coffin for a few days (for the wake), and then buried inside a cheap coffin.

Tabnabs

It's your last hurra, may as well do it in style.

http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/uploaded_images/Viking-funeral-799141.jpg

smash

Viking burial FTW!

Freddy Smelly

kneemos wrote: »

You'll need a coffin for the wake,ye pack of animals.

why? cant ya be waked while lying on a table or in a bed?

also muslims dont have wakes for their dead like we do.... muslims are usually buried on the day they die.

kevovek

Just have a weekend at Bernie's style wake! Fun for all the family!

corktina

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

why? cant ya be waked while lying on a table or in a bed?
.

you need somewhere to stand the pints

howamidifferent

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

muslims are usually buried on the day they die.

Unless your the boston bomber...then no graveyard will have ya...

smash

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

muslims are usually buried on the day they die.

Wasn't this the excuse used when the American's produced no evidence that Osama Bin Laden had actually been killed.

Leftist

All corpses should become property of the state for research and mineral purposes.

Seve OB

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

cremation for me

dont want a grave (why bother with the expense of buying a plot)
you can choose the be cremated without having to buy an expensive coffin.

I'm also for cremation.

But I have heard (don't know how true it is) that you still have to get a coffin for cremation. Doesn't make sense to me at all.

keithsfleet

Leftist wrote: »

All corpses should become property of the state for research and mineral purposes.

You have got to be s***ing us.
Spend you're entire life giving them you're wages and then once you die let them screw you over again.

IM0

Leftist wrote: »

All corpses should become property of the state for research and mineral purposes.

is that what 7 up is made from :eek: