Would you get buried in a cardboard coffin?

[apelike 10]

I dont care at all but anything that stops the rip-of funeral merchants making a vast profit is fine by me.

 

Seems they are not so cheap either.

 

http://www.peacefunerals.co.uk/cardboard_coffins

[Daven 10]

Are you sure you wouldn't mind paying 5p for the bag Daven?

 

Mmmmmmh ! I might push the boat out for a special occasion !

There's not much of me so I might just about fit in a bag for life !

[GLASGOWOODS 10]

Mmmmmmh ! I might push the boat out for a special occasion !

There's not much of me so I might just about fit in a bag for life !

 

Bag for life for your burial:huh:

[Daven 10]

After life ?

[RJRB 688]

After life ?

 

Like it.

"Bag for after life "sounds a winner to me.

[JOHN HABS 10]

And even after that length of time the remains have to be put through a bone crusher to produce the dust we have all heard about.

In answer to the OP - yes, I would be happy to be buried in a cardboard coffin - or a bin bag to be honest - I won't be here to worry or care.

 

Don't know where you have heard of a ' Bone Crusher ' being used ?

Many many years ago, when I was employed as an apprentice electrician and assisting an electrician in the installation of some equipment in City Road Crematorium, we saw the coffins coming through on the conveyor belt from the service, they went straight in the furnace and the gas taps turned on and ignited. The workmen operating the furnaces

( two furnaces on the go at the same time ) would look through a small circular window that was built into the furnace door to see how far incineration had gone - when only the skeleton

was left, he would push a long poker through an hole in the furnace door to break the bones

Unless a new method has been employed, I would imagine the old system is still being used.

[Vague_Boy 10]

Burials and cremations are quite expensive these days and the mark-up price for coffins is horrendous. I just wondered if people object to being buried in a cardboard coffin?

 

Isn't one of the main costs of burial the plot?

[Alcoblog 10]

Isn't one of the main costs of burial the plot?

It depends really on what the plot is I guess. If it involves the employ of a hired assassin, then I guess it could be pretty exorbitant ... especially if they then try the old blackmail routine.

Edited October 8, 2015 by Alcoblog

[RonJeremy 10]

That's pretty much what I want. A woodland burial - might as well fertilise the soil rather than pollute the air !

 

What's the difference between a woodland burial and a normal burial?

[poppet2 13]

The workmen operating the furnaces

( two furnaces on the go at the same time ).

 

Does that mean when you collect the ashes, you could end up with the other person's ashes as well?:suspect:

[davyboy 19]

They'd have to be sturdy though, you'd hate to be at a funeral on a wet day and the deceased falls out the bottom.

 

 

LOL:hihi:

 

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What's the difference between a woodland burial and a normal burial?

 

One's in a wood???

[sgtkate 10]

Does that mean when you collect the ashes, you could end up with the other person's ashes as well?:suspect:

 

I think he meant 2 separate furnaces, but I doubt they jet wash and sanitize the furnace between each person.