I'd like to be cremated in a shroud,or indeed,nothing at all.
But that ain't gonna happen. Not because of the law but because a few large American companies control the funeral industry in Australia,and won't do it. My sister in law is funeral director for a large company.Those bastards won't even let you have a cardboard casket. If you insist,they won't do the service. Also lots of luck tying to forego embalming,even for a cremation. Nuts,I know,it's about money.
Here you can legally bury someone in your backyard is you want,and you do not need a funeral director or any casket at all, but there seem to be a lot of forms to complete and lot of running around..
When my dad died,we had him cremated and [ilegally] scattered his ashes into a local river,as he had asked.
ALL cremations are technically difficult due the heat required to reduce bone to ash. There are always some bones left,often a lot of the skull. Those bones are pulverised at the crematorium.Traditional Hindu cremations are notoriously inefficient ,unburnt remains are dumped into a river,preferably the Ganges.
I would only permit a traditional Hindu cremation with strict controls in place.
But that ain't gonna happen. Not because of the law but because a few large American companies control the funeral industry in Australia,and won't do it. My sister in law is funeral director for a large company.Those bastards won't even let you have a cardboard casket. If you insist,they won't do the service. Also lots of luck tying to forego embalming,even for a cremation. Nuts,I know,it's about money.
Here you can legally bury someone in your backyard is you want,and you do not need a funeral director or any casket at all, but there seem to be a lot of forms to complete and lot of running around..
When my dad died,we had him cremated and [ilegally] scattered his ashes into a local river,as he had asked.
ALL cremations are technically difficult due the heat required to reduce bone to ash. There are always some bones left,often a lot of the skull. Those bones are pulverised at the crematorium.Traditional Hindu cremations are notoriously inefficient ,unburnt remains are dumped into a river,preferably the Ganges.
I would only permit a traditional Hindu cremation with strict controls in place.
