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:

Mr. CooL ICE

I want my body to be chopped up and fed to pigs, and for the same pigs to be slaughtered and feasted upon by my family and loved ones.

I have eaten so much bacon in my lifetime that this is the epitome of the circle of life.

DEFTLEFTHAND

stevieob wrote: »

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.

Afaik the coffin isn't burned with the body, the person is removed from the coffin and is usually wrapped in plastic before being placed in a cardboard container.

DjFlin

smash wrote: »

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

No, I think they didnt want images of him being circulated portraying him as a martyr.

kneemos

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

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.

There's something very final about being placed in a coffin and putting the lid on.

HondaSami

I can't see many people here wrapping their loved ones in a sheet and throwing them in a hole in the ground, I know I wouldn't no matter how expensive coffins are.

Dyr

when I die I want my body to be chained upright to a rock like cu cullan/an abandoned mountain bike

Leftist

kneemos wrote: »

There's something very final about being placed in a coffin and putting the lid on.

this. Because dying isn't final enough.

Cody Pomeray

HondaSami wrote: »

I can't see many people here wrapping their loved ones in a sheet and throwing them in a hole in the ground, I know I wouldn't no matter how expensive coffins are.

what if they cost €1,000,000,000?

CrazyRabbit

After I die, I want vampire teeth surgically implanted, and then a stake thrust through my chest cavity and into my heart. Then, to complete the effect, I'll need a coffin wrapped in heavy chains.

Just think...in a few hundred years someone might dig me up and it'll be a great laugh.

So yeah...I still want a coffin.

I Heart Internet

Certiain austere religious orders (the Cistercians I'm thinkin of) traditionally bury their members without a coffin as a sign of poverty and humility. I think Cistercians are buried on a plank covered in a white cloth - no coffin.

I don't know if this happens in Ireland though - or if it's allowed. I presume those monasteries have their own private burial plots. But just because it's a private plot doesn't mean the laws don't apply(?) Does it?

Cavehill Red

I want to be compressed into a beautiful precious gem.

That, or the burnt at sea in a Viking longship thing.

Ye can keep yer wooden boxes dropped in a muddy hole.

Taxburden carrier

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

This originates from a request from the Muslim community. Take a trip to the Middle East and try asking where the nearest Sunday mass is .

snubbleste

The State should build and maintain a number of crematoriums and not leave it to the private sector. They provide and maintain cemeteries. So why not?
It would work out cheaper and more beneficial than buying and maintaining land for cemeteries.

HondaSami

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

what if they cost €1,000,000,000?

Don't be silly.

ToddyDoody

I was to be buried without a coffin, wrapped in seaweed, to aid biodegradability.

Agricola

Are there such things as themed funerals? I'd love to be floated out to sea in a canoe and have an archer light me on fire from 100 yards like in Game of Thrones the other week! Coffins me hole.

frankeee

Taxburden carrier wrote: »

This originates from a request from the Muslim community. Take a trip to the Middle East and try asking where the nearest Sunday mass is .

The nearest church I'd imagine?

OU812

I'm starting my new business Coffin Dodgers Ltd. today.

Rental reuseable coffins.

The body is wrapped & placed on a board. A coffin top is placed on this & clicks hold of the board.

When the coffin is lowered, the top releases & when everyone has left the graveside, the coffin top is lifted off leaving the wrapped body on the board to be buried.

€199.99 per funeral rental (+ VAT)

IM0

stevieob wrote: »

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.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Afaik the coffin isn't burned with the body, the person is removed from the coffin and is usually wrapped in plastic before being placed in a cardboard container.

ah so they just flog it then. lovely.

Capt'n Midnight

HondaSami wrote: »

I can't see many people here wrapping their loved ones in a sheet and throwing them in a hole in the ground, I know I wouldn't no matter how expensive coffins are.

That's essentially what Muslims do, and usually on the same or next day.

Traditions vary.

And besides you can buy cardboard coffins so they really shouldn't be too expensive, unless someone is gouging grievers.