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

Pootle1
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And I really do mean the cheapest - no funeral directors involved, no ceremony, no paid-for cars, no coffin, no cremation, no burial. The very very cheapest option.
For example, in the extreme could my body be put in a bin bag and dumped at the local waste centre?
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  • Misslayed
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    Donate the body to medical or forensic science. Completely free AFAIK
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  • MovingForwards
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    Bury them in your back garden, with permission from the council I think, just need to notify any potential buyers if you sell so they don't think they are digging up a murder victim.

    Donation to science have their own requirements as to cause of death and not accepting the body, sometimes have more than enough bodies so won't take them for quite a while.

    Best bet is don't claim the body when the person dies.
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  • Fen1
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    edited 20 October 2019 at 2:21PM
    Donating body to science.

    The medical school will cremate your remains then hold an annual memorial service to all donors, thanking them for their generosity. All free.
    However, not all bodies are automatically used. The schools have strict guidelines on which bodies they can use ( e.g. location of death, circumstances of death such as disease).
    Your estate will then have to deal with your corpse and funeral.

    Your relatives can't donate your corpse to a medical school. You must organise your donation whilst alive.
  • Fen1
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    edited 20 October 2019 at 2:25PM
    You do have to be as normal and typical as possible at death. Healthy but dead (!)

    Unless you have an interesting condition, and the researchers would really benefit from your donation.
  • Malthusian
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    Pootle1 wrote: »
    For example, in the extreme could my body be put in a bin bag and dumped at the local waste centre?

    That would be illegal, same as if you were dumping any other medical waste without following the proper procedures.

    The very very cheapest option (with no potential cost to anyone) is to fall into the sea in international waters, preferably weighted down so you don't wash up somewhere.
  • getmore4less
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    edited 22 October 2019 at 8:49AM
    Malthusian wrote: »
    That would be illegal, same as if you were dumping any other medical waste without following the proper procedures.

    The very very cheapest option (with no potential cost to anyone) is to fall into the sea in international waters, preferably weighted down so you don't wash up somewhere.

    Sea burial would get quite expensive if you did not have access to suitable transport free.

    Private land(with permission) that meets the relevant criteria environmental criteria and local bylaws would be cheaper.

    Cremation has a few more hurdles some cost if you want to reduce risk of prosecution.
  • Misslayed
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    edited 21 October 2019 at 6:29PM
    Medical schools do want want healthy (but dead) cadavers, the students need to learn what parts of a normal body look like before they learn about what various illnesses do to them, but forensic researchers are not so fussy, they can use them to contrive situations (eg buried in various soils, left exposed to elements in various conditions) to help the pathologist make more accurate estimates of time of death etc. An old friend who died of cancer, but also had extensive COPD did exactly that. Tough on the relatives and friends left behind though.
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  • sammyjammy
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    Fen1 wrote: »
    You do have to be as normal and typical as possible at death. Healthy but dead (!)

    Unless you have an interesting condition, and the researchers would really benefit from your donation.

    They don't use donated bodies for research, only for teaching students anatomy.
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  • suki1964
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    You can have a cremation, just carted up in a body bag in the back of a black van with a bunch of others, cremated and scattered in the rose garden
  • z1a
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    getmore4less wrote: »
    Sea burial would get quite expensive if you did not have access to suitable transport free.

    Private land(with permission) that meets the relevant criteria environmental criteria and local bylaws would be cheaper.

    Cremation has a few more hurdles some cost if you want to reduce risk of persecution.

    Why would you be persecuted?
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