Death

A topical subject at the moment that I'd been thinking about for a while but have no answers, so to the Seabreeze brains trust...
Here in WA I believe that the funeral industry is essentially a duopoly and probably price fixed, so for the families suffering financial hardships, or unattached citizens who pass away, or whomever really, what are the options for dealing with the deceased here in Australia, or state by state if you know?
Applications are in to create eco burial/ conservation burial grounds. What about our oceans? Can we not go all crayfisherman mafia style where we wrap in chicken wire, weigh and dump remains?

I googled this a while ago. According to my search, once you get the death certificate the laws regarding the disposal of the body are sparse and you're free to use it for backyard fertilizer. I vaguely remember a distance from shore required for sea burials.

Very good business to be in as it's a service very few going to avoid! Guaranteed customers!

It's not something that has occupied my thoughts that much but there's a local business in Nambucca which has it's premises at the shopping center with a window facing the benches where a lot of old folk gather. Apparently there's a special for $1850. Now that my Ross River is abating I've ceased to take much notice.

It's a travesty that even in death you don't have the freedom to have your vacant carcass disposed on in the manner you wish but if you look at the bright side the last insult which the system throws at you falls on completely deaf ears and you literally cannot give a f^ck.

Our western culture has once again outsourced & commodified something most are afraid of or don't want to deal with, physically or psychologically. All geared towards denying we are finite.

Told the family to donate my remains to science if they'll accept, I like the idea of someone learning something from my me in death.

Donated to science has a few options, the obvious one is to be frozen & medico students get to hone the nessasary skills. an interesting one I heard of recently is referred to as a corpse farm where corpses are left to decay in various situations and are forensicly studied. A deferent take on laying around in the sun !

We just did a fairly simple funeral for around $6K. That included everything....use of funeral chapel, basic coffin, crematorium, body transport and storage, paper work.

if you wanted absolute minimum, with no service, it would have been about $500 for collection and storage of the body, then roughly another $500 for the crematorium....some admin costs, I think you could do it for under $1500, then you just need to dispose of the ashes.

When I die I want to be scattered at Disneyland.
i do not want to be cremated.

These tree pods look like a great idea: www.thelivingurn.com/blogs/news/the-living-urn-continues-its-international-expansion-by-launching-in-australia

For starters they'd look worlds better than grave yards which always look so bloody morbid! Less chance of being disinterred too I imagine. I saw something once about how you're only guaranteed x number of years in a traditional graveyard. You could create a veritable food forest of trees planted in bodies.

Lets go and pick some Mangos off Uncle Phill or Grandma is ripening up nicely!

From funeral homes to brothels , there's money in stiffs dead or alive.Morgan Bros have the right idea

Thanks for the burial at sea idea, sn, the dept of Ag, water and the environment controls such things. But it still seems restrictive and expensive.
So, cheap arse cremation on the beach then scatter the ashes at the Point during a still offshore to make sure everyone gets a pasting of Aunty Gerbil.

I was under the impression that when you die that's it, end of contract. End of interaction. If you know something different I'd love to hear it.

Might explain all those ghostly chaps. Still collecting a pay check so cannot move to the next step up the ladder, wandering around like lost souls!