think this is disrespectful to the dead

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350039/Row-crematorium-heating-swimmers-plan-cash-strapped-council.html

i'm all for saving money but this is just weird

If you choose a Green Burial you can enjoy the full Cycle of Life. Get buried in a basket or shroud and as Grendelsmum said plant a tree or have a bird box instead of a headstone. The area then goes back to nature and becomes a woodland for our children and future generations to enjoy. If you still want to be cremated you can put your ashes in an urn made out of basket or cardboard

I'm having a nice woven coffin and a woodland burial
BTW cremation done using a wicker coffin isn't very environmentally friendly as they take longer/are harder to burn than usual coffins-I read that somewhere.
Cremation scares me -I'm afraid of fire,so that's probably it. My brother who died when he was ten was cremated and that has always bothered me.

I think it's a great idea - I know of one very local to me in North Lincolnshire - have you already pre-booked your plot?

I didn't understand the fuss myself.

i would encourage everyone to go for woodland burial. They are going to be the only areas of woodland we've got left....

Of course it's not. It's not even as if the heat from burning bodies is making any significant differnce - it will be the heat from the furnace that needs to get hot enough to make the bodies burn.

Heat is heat is heat, and dead is dead.

there is a woodland burial ground fairly near to us- haven't got around to reserving my plot though

I'm using a Green Burial site called called Respect - and like Nagoo said it will be the only woodland area left for us to use in the future if the recent news is anything to go by. I'm going to pre-book as the price is frozen at today's costs. Hopefully won't need it for a while but I'm all for saving money smile

My friend has just been buried in a woodland burial site . I know she would have liked it there. That's what I have told my family I want too.

I am sorry to hear about your friend. Did you find the funeral was a much better experience than a normal funeral? I know that sounds a bit heartless but I hope you know what I mean. Which one was it?

The funeral was held at a Church near to us because there were about 450 people there.It was beautiful and full of honesty (she took her own life). I wish she could have seen (and believed) how many people loved her. The burial was just immediate family but her friends can 'visit' her now whenever they want/ need to. It's at Much Hoole near Southport.

And it's been approved. See here

Its a great idea re-cycling the heat - does it matter why the heat was generated in the first place. Think many people would like the idea that the process is not wholly wasteful.

London's Burning!

I watched that religiously.

Wrong thread.

Sorry.

I think it's very sensible and dead people don't care. And if when my parents were cremated they'd helped to heat a swimming pool I wouldn't have cared either, because I hate cold swimming pools myself and it being cold wouldn't have made my parents any less dead.

So YABU.

In Luton they are building the new pool almost next door to the crem, I wonder if this is part of the plan.