Archive for the ‘Cremation’ Category
UK Hindu Man is Burning Down the House
12, Feb 2010Hindu Wins Northumberland Funeral Pyre Battle
BBC News (February 10, 2010)
Hindu Man Wins Court Battle for Open-Air Cremation Pyre
Matthew Taylor The Guardian (February 10, 2010)
It has been a big week for cremation in the UK. On Wednesday, Davender Ghai, a 71-year old Hindu man from Newcastle won a landmark court case on Appeal. The Ghai case [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Death + the Law
- Tags: cremains, green burial, religion, video
Open Air Cremations UK Style
26, Jan 2010Funeral Pyres judgment Reserved
BBC News (January 18, 2010)
Hindu Fights for Open-Air Cremation
UKPA (January 17, 2010)
Last week, a really interesting and potentially important court case appeared before a British Appeals Court. A British Hindu man, Davender Ghai, wants permission from the Newcastle City government to have his body cremated on an open air pyre.
Here is [...]
- By: John
- In: Afterlife| Cremation| Death + the Law
- Tags: religion
Aurora Casket Company Trying to Stop Cremations with Video
R. Brian Burkhardt, YourFuneralGuy (January 25, 2010)
YourFuneralGuy just found a gem: it seems the Aurora Casket Company, one of the big three casket manufacturers in the United States, made a video of a mock funeral for direct cremation, the very villain encroaching on and slowly killing [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Cremation| Death + Humor| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: mock funerals, video
Cremating Supersized Dead Bodies
16, Dec 2009Bath Cemetery Refused to Cremate Man Because He Was Too Heavy
The Bath Chronicle (December 14, 2009)
Every once in a while, a dead body story brings home the following point: all the issues that surround the living world don’t entirely stop when a person dies. Indeed, funeral directors and crematorium operators encounter most aspects of the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, obesity
Putting Death Down the Drain
2, Dec 2009 Dying to Be Green? Try “Bio-Cremation”
Nicole Mordant, Reuters (December 1, 2009)
There’s a shiny new final disposition in town, attempting to gain ground on the green burial bandwagon: Resomation, developed in Scotland in 2007, also known as bio-cremation or the dreadfully ambiguous “Water Resolution.”
Cremation is consistently flogged for its high energy consumption and resulting [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation| Eco-Death
- Tags: bio-cremation