[BNM] [OT] Arthur C Clarke has died

[Mark Wilkin]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Shaun Morrison <shaun.numb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 19 Mar 2008, at 19/03/2008 | 10:52, Mark Wilkin wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Shaun Morrison
>  > <shaun.numb at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>
> >> The Beeb reported "Sir Arthur has left written instructions that his
>  >> funeral be strictly secular," A stupid question perhaps but, is this
>  >> actually possible (a secular funeral)?
>  >
>
> > Yes the Humanist Association has people who do them
>  > http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=310
>
>  Okay, but where do you bury bodies if you want a secular funeral? Do
>  you legally have to bury bodies in certain designated areas i.e. a
>  church graveyard?

Well this one was a cremation, but local cemetaries don't have any
restrictions on who is buried there. You wouldn't be able to get in
your local church graveyard, but it's rare that anyone would be buried
there anyway in this day and age due to overcrowding. I know there are
some places out there where you can be buried in a forest and have a
tree planted as a gravestone, so there are a lot more options
nowadays.

Mark