Grave robbed in Beaver County? (money)

[Bludy-L]

Originally Posted by Sealtite

I don't see the allure of being buried in a casket, or in a cemetery at all for that matter. I'd prefer to be buried in my backyard, so that my surviving family can visit my grave often. Is this legal?

It's legal in my State, but that may vary in others. The only restriction here is that the burial is a certain distance from a water supply.

However....it can be difficult to sell the house and property with a grave in the yard.

You'd still be required to obtain a burial permit.

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[Hopes]

I wouldn't want a family member buried in my yard. I'd move. Everyone deals with grief in different ways. Some family members don't want to visit graves often. I don't go to the cemetery because it's too painful to go there. I love and miss them too much to be reminded they aren't in my life. Everyone is different. My sister goes to the cemetery and talks to them regularly. I can talk to them anywhere. I don't need to go to a cemetery to do it.

My husband and I have agreed that each of us gets to decide what to do when the other dies. We don't have wishes we want to enforce on people. We realize that the people left living are the people who matter the most because they are the ones who have to live with the decisions. We feel the same way about those living wills that dictate what to do if brain dead. Neither of us want to force the other to go through something they don't want to go through. For example, if I'm on a ventilator, I believe it should be my husband's decision if he wants to pull the plug or not---since he is the one who has to live with it. He feels the same way, and wants me to make the decision if he's on a ventilator.

Medical professionals are often surprised to hear that we purposely do not have a living will for that reason. But when you've buried enough family members, you realize that death is all about the living, not the people who died. Maybe they are also surprised because it shows we trust each other entirely.

[Bludy-L]

Hope....you should put that in writing too, and have it notarized. Leave no question about who makes the decision.

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[Bludy-L]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Funeral directors don't manage cemeteries. They manage funeral homes.

Ummmm.....not necessarily.

I own multiple funeral homes, a cemetery, and a crematory.

But I began as a funeral director/owner of a family funeral home over 110 years old.

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[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Bludy-L

I own multiple funeral homes, a cemetery, and a crematory.

Multiple hats. Multiple titles. Multiple licenses.

[Bludy-L]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Multiple hats. Multiple titles. Multiple licenses.

Mega hours of CE (continuing education). :-(

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[ditchdigger]

I wouldn't want a family member buried in my yard.

It's much less conspicuous if you bury them in the basement...

[Sealtite]

Is mummification illegal in Pennsylvania? What about having my head shrunken, and stored in a jar full of formaldehyde so that my family could look at my smiling face for generations to come. I think I'm on to something here! As long as I can legally have my head preserved in some sort of glass container, the dogs can just bury the rest of my body in the backyard. No tombstone, no nothing....So nobody will even though I'm buried back there. My family can just stick a milkbone in my ass and let the dogs take care of the rest.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by Sealtite

I don't see the allure of being buried in a casket, or in a cemetery at all for that matter. I'd prefer to be buried in my backyard, so that my surviving family can visit my grave often. Is this legal?

I wouldn't do that. It would be convenient for your close relatives NOW, but as Hopes said -- they move and the new owners would "forget" you.

As someone who has scoured I don't know how many old maps of several areas back in PA late 1700's -- I can't find my 5th great grandfather for nothing. No one knows where McCoy's Burial Ground is -- or even WHAT it is.

And I'm not the only one looking. Those sorts of graveyards disappear and when your 5th great grand something (yes -- I look for uncles and aunts!) tries to find you all she ends up with is nothing.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

It's much less conspicuous if you bury them in the basement...

Originally Posted by Sealtite

Is mummification illegal in Pennsylvania? What about having my head shrunken, and stored in a jar full of formaldehyde so that my family could look at my smiling face for generations to come. I think I'm on to something here! As long as I can legally have my head preserved in some sort of glass container, the dogs can just bury the rest of my body in the backyard. No tombstone, no nothing....So nobody will even though I'm buried back there. My family can just stick a milkbone in my ass and let the dogs take care of the rest.

You and Walt Disney would have made great friends!