What is the very very cheapest body disposal option after death?

Silvertabby

Perhaps not quite as simple as that.....

Anyone can be buried at sea

Although many people who are buried at sea are former sailors or navy personnel, there is no need to have a connection with maritime life.
Anyone can be buried at sea, so long as the person arranging it has a licence - available for £175 from the MMO - and complies with some environmental rules.
Applicants must provide a certificate from a doctor that the body is clear of fever and infection, and the coroner may also need to be informed.
The person being buried must not be embalmed and should be clad in light, biodegradable clothing.
Some funeral directors will arrange the event, and the Britannia Shipping Company specialises in it. Charity organisation the Maritime Volunteer Service also helps carry out burials at sea.
The navy conducts its own burials at sea, for those veterans who wish it. For more detailed information you should contact the chaplain at the base from which the dead person served.
But you can't simply be buried anywhere


There are only three designated burial sites in English coastal waters. They are at Newhaven in East Sussex, The Needles Spoil Ground near the Isle of Wight and Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear.
If you wish to bury someone in a location other than one of the three above, you can propose a new site when making your application.
You will need to supply exact co-ordinates and evidence to demonstrate that the site is suitable for burials at sea.
It must be somewhere there is a minimal risk of the body being returned to shore by strong currents or being disturbed by commercial fishing nets. In some rare cases, bodies do drift. Because of this, the person buried must have an identification tag attached to them.
It can also take about five hours to reach the burial site and be quite choppy, according to David Hughes from the Marine Volunteer Service, which handled Mr Clowes' burial.
For this reason, many families choose to have a ceremony on land, before saying goodbye from the quayside.
Mr Hughes says he utters a short prayer as the coffin is committed to the sea.

DigForVictory

Pootle1 wrote: »

So provided my death is registered correctly my body can be disposed of at sea by my relatives, without involving funeral directors?

Not quite.
There are burial areas & I think they even want the body tagged so if a limb gets snagged in a net the fortunate fisher-person can identify their amazing catch & hopefully return you to the burial waters.