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red-indian | 6 years ago

If any one is interested, we bury our own in my family on our ancestral land. We use a plain wooden casket and dig the grave ourselves. If a backhoe from a friend is available it's a bonus.

I support the right to self bury, as most states have done for centuries.

There's a weird idea that government needs to get involved in this and protect funeral home gouging.

In any case total burial, funeral and wake cost can be around $800, if you want.

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thrower123|6 years ago

It's getting so silly that you can't even bury your dog under the apple tree in the back yard in a lot of places these days.

silveroriole|6 years ago

There was a huge argument about this on reddit not long ago. People were legitimately horrified at the idea of burying a pet in their yard, were convinced there were all sorts of diseases and miasmas that would occur if you did so and that the land would be permanently damaged/devalued, and that finding the bones would cause psychological trauma. Just mad. If dead animals were so dangerous we’d all be extinct long ago!

gonesilent|6 years ago

Guess I got lucky buying land with a legal cemetery, $40 fee and away you go.