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Ultimate scrooge funeral/body disposal?

Apologies if this is the wrong board, but I couldn't spot a more appropriate board for this question!

In my area of the London, the cheapest basic method of legal body disposal comes to about £2000. This is if the body/organ donation route is discounted; this cannot be relied on, as I can't guarantee my method of death, and how young and fresh it's going to be, and how many other bodies they'll already have for that week/month!

So if one were to be really pragmatic about it, with no preferences about method or desire for weeping/cheering people to gather singing songs during the event, and is hiring professionals to do it(i.e. not relying on a relative to do the driving/lugging/digging/etc), what is the cheapest way to do it? Thank you.

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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,635 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi cattkitt,

    This thread may help:

    How Cheap can a Funeral Be !

    I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the ideas together.

    Pink
  • cattkitt
    cattkitt Posts: 442 Forumite
    Thank you very much.
    It's annoying in a vaguely amusing way that it looks like I can't even give my body away! Well, it's not a guaranteed acceptance. After all those childhood exhortations to value myself, look after my body, blah, blah, blah, things have come to a pretty pass when I'm looking at all these places that are pretty snotty about accepting bodies, and the very precise circumstances under which they are accepted.
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