Old guy bowing out soon

The following sub-thread was, as Phillip commented, a shameless hijack of another post. Should the contributors wish to continue, please do so below.

Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 23 hours ago

Old guy in our house will be bowing out soon - just wondering if anyone has experience of home burial, or has  passed on loved one half ground buried with upper half sky buried as in Tibet, Sichuan etc , or knows of anyone doing either of the above?  Get those bloody undertakers' embalming paws off our loved ones with home and flexi-funerals.

Reply by pamish 20 hours ago

Calling your bluff OAE - there's no law that says you have to use an undertaker.   You can have a DIY funeral as long as it's within H&S limits.  Saves thousands of £££.   I don't think you can use your own garden though.

Reply by Osbawn 8 hours ago

I'd be keen to see a sky-burial on Ally Pally or Parliament Hill. Or a Viking style burial 'at sea' with blazing arrows etc on one of the local reservoirs would be equally entertaining.

Reply by pamish 8 hours ago

Better start training up those peregrines.

Reply by Osbawn 3 hours ago

I suppose that is ambitious. Perhaps, a natural Harringay 'burial' would be more practical whereby the deceased is fly-tipped in the passage and slowly reduced mouthful by mouthful by the local foxes. Its a very green solution.

Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) 1 hour ago

Osbawn, I believe you've cracked it. I shall make my way towards the Passage just now and cut out the fly-tipping middleman. If we cannot conduct our demise and disposal with dignitas let's do it with veolia. DIY Paedagogues Unite - there's a Free School at the end of your Tunnel Vision!

Reply by Philip Foxe 8 hours ago

You can indeed use your own back garden, subject to some planning regs. Never did see a post so egregiously hijacked though!

Reply by pamish 7 hours ago

It's OAE's sole aim in life.  Or soul aim.