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RE: One traditional funeral pyre please!
February 11, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I don't see the problem really. If the guy wants his body to be burned on a pyre and it can be done without endangering other people, then why not?
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RE: One traditional funeral pyre please!
February 11, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Funeral pyre's look cool. Sounds better than any funeral I've been to.
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RE: One traditional funeral pyre please!
February 11, 2010 at 9:26 pm
It is a compromise win in a case decided over administrative law laid under pollution and sanitary guidelines.
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RE: One traditional funeral pyre please!
February 11, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Governments shouldn't have any control over how people want to have their funerals, unless their wishes affect the liberty or lives of others. This man challenged the law and won...good on him.
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RE: One traditional funeral pyre please!
February 11, 2010 at 10:27 pm
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.
