Are there any rules about where you can bury people in this country, or how you can bury them?
The Natural Death Centre collected information and is providing information in the Natural Death Handbook so yes you can be buried on your own land and provided that you don’t erect a gravestone and turn it into a graveyard, you don’t change the use of the land. But nowadays, there are so many green burial grounds up and down the country [over 250 of them]. Some are more like park land, some are more like meadows and some are like woodland. There are different types. For people who want to find out about natural burial grounds in their area, they should contact the Natural Death Centre
www.naturaldeath.org.uk.
So anybody who wishes to bury somebody they love in their own garden, that’s fine?
Yes, you can do that. And people have done that but, you know, your neighbours might object if it’s a little, tiny little garden there are not many rules around, there are a few about not too close to a spring and so forth, you know, and...
