Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cemeteries

[e . matejowsky (e.matejowsky]

>Now were it up to me, I'd be buried naked with a bit of red ochre under an
>oak tree or somesuch -- maybe a dawn redwood -- or a douglas fir (now that
>I'm in Oregon).  But silly people -- they don't allow that either, even
>if you aren't near a watershed!  Alas! ;)
>
>Shava Nerad
I have friends who want to be turned into mulch when they die -- they don't
allow that either.

I've been told that here in Oz you can have a private cemetery on your land
- if it's big enough and the zoning is correct. I'm not sure if it's true
though. I think you still have to have a coffin though. I'm not sure they
could stop you planting a tree over the grave though? I'll have a 'flame
tree' please.
Eddie.M.

Edward Matejowsky.
Queensland University of Technology
Centre for Eye Research
email E.MATEJOWSKY [at] QUT.EDU.AU
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