Hogs eat man

[rebelcowboysnb]

Most states still let you just dig a hole in the back yard...

 

[zazouse]

Yea but they would probley tax you for whatever you put in it

My DH and i could care less, when we are gone we want the cheapest most unelabrate way to be done away with, what it cost to die is rediculas now days

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Yea but they would probley tax you for whatever you put in it

My DH and i could care less, when we are gone we want the cheapest most unelabrate way to be done away with, what it cost to die is rediculas now days

http://www.pbs.org/pov/afamilyundertaking/

It was in netflix but not anymore.

 

[oldrooster]

Rebel that may be true but this article ran in the Bloomington Indiana newspaper called the Herald Times.
State law blocks backyard burial plans
Owen County widow seeks to honor her husband’s wish to be laid to rest on their property

By Laura Lane​

331-4362 | [email protected]​

May 25, 2011

Betty Blaker wants to move her husband’s grave to their Owen County farm north of Spencer, and she also hopes to be buried on the property. David Snodgress | Herald-Times​

SPENCER — Milo Ray Blaker took sick the day after Christmas, his wife Betty said, and never got well. “He told me the day before he died, ‘I want to be buried there on the hillside.’ So I had the grave dug.” It’s still there, six feet deep, awaiting the remains of 88-year-old Milo Blaker. His unembalmed body ended up buried two miles away in the old Rose Cemetery — amid the graves of notorious Owen County bank robbers shot by police — because Indiana law requires that people be buried in established graveyards. Not the backyard. Not 50 feet away from the Blakers’ home on a wildflower-covered hill visible from the kitchen window. The Blakers lived there together on a 10-acre farm with cattle for 51 years. When it was clear Milo Blaker’s death was nigh, neighbors Steve and Lewis Fender got to work building a casket of cherry wood. “We’ve known them all our lives,” Steve Fender said. “We got started on a Friday and got done by Monday.” Their wives lined the box with blue fabric. “You should have seen it,” the widow said proudly. Her husband, a veteran of World War II, died March 26. The afternoon of May 16, Betty Blaker — in red wool knit cap, plaid flannel shirt and black rubber mud boots — appeared before the Owen County commissioners. “I have to establish a cemetery, a green burial cemetery, for me and my husband,” the 83-year-old woman said. “No embalming, no vaults, just a burial ground. I will give you all the land. All I want is two plots.” It seems simple enough. The Blakers own the land and they want it to be their final resting place. Milo Blaker’s obituary in The Herald-Times said that after his funeral at Whitehall Pentecostal Church, “interment will follow in a private service at the family plot of Blaker Cemetery.” But that never happened, because no cemetery exists. And as Betty Blaker found out, anyone who wants to create a cemetery on private property must establish a $100,000 perpetuity fund to care for it into the future. She was surprised, and left with her husband’s body to bury. There was room for him at Riverside Cemetery beside other family members, but Blaker did not want to be embalmed and buried there. The Rose Cemetery, with weathered gravestones dating back to the mid-1800s, does not require bodies to be embalmed, so there lies Milo Blaker. For now. His widow lives simply and does not have the $100,000 necessary to comply with Indiana’s cemetery law. So she has offered to deed her land to the county, which can turn it into a cemetery and sell plots, or just leave the Blakers there. “I really don’t care what the county does with it after I’m gone,” she said. The commissioners, and a lot of people around Spencer, all know the Blakers. Milo worked at RCA, then spent 20 years driving a truck for the county highway department before retiring in 1986. Commissioner Richard Foutch has given Betty Blaker his blessing and asked county attorney Richard Lorenz to check into the legality of it all to see what can be done. “You know I’ll back you 100 percent,” Foutch told Blaker at the recent meeting. “I know how much you want to be buried on your own ground. I understand.” She and her husband lived on her family’s home place off Rocky Hill Road northwest of Spencer half a century. “All of our animals are buried out there, and I would expect us to have the same right,” she said. For now, she visits her husband at Rose Cemetery. It has no rules requiring vaults or embalming, so it was a fine alternative. But Foutch, as well as Betty Blaker, hopes Lorenz can find a legal loophole. “Some way, somehow, we are trying to figure something out,” Foutch said. Larry Harvey is the director of compliance and investigations for the state’s professional licensing board, which oversees funeral homes, cemeteries and anything having to do with cosmetology and barbering. He explained that Indiana law requires that humans be buried in established cemeteries. A funeral director must be present to see the body go into the ground and then sign a death certificate saying the burial happened in a legal place. “She could have been charged with a Class C felony” had she gone ahead and buried her husband in the grave she had dug up on the hill at home, Harvey said. If Milo Blaker had been cremated, his ashes could have been scattered anywhere. But he chose a simple burial in a casket made by lifelong friends instead. Harvey said if Washington Township or the county took over the land and made a cemetery, they would not have to comply with the state law since it is 10 acres or less. So no one would have to pay the $100,000 for a perpetuity fund. The law says a township trustee can accept such a land donation if it is in “the best interests of the township,” and must keep the cemetery “in good condition and repair.” Harvey said the burden of taking care of the cemetery then falls to the taxpayer. “I doubt the county would take on that kind of burden,” he said. Betty Blaker is not so sure and is holding out hope. “She wants to get Milo moved before she dies, and she wants to be there with him,” said their neighbor, Steve Fender. “I’m 83 years old,” she added. “I’ve got to get this done.”

 

[rufus]

Didn't the pig get into the yard and eat the baby in "Tobacco Road?" I guess this is not such an uncommon problem. About 25 years ago a fellow in Cane Beds, Arizona was eaten by his pigs.

Members of the Parsi faith have a strange funeral ritual. The body is chopped up and left for buzzards and feral dogs to consume. This could result in some ghastly littering. But for people wanting to return to "dust to dust, ashes to ashes" it might be an alternative.

 

[chickened]

Didn't the pig get into the yard and eat the baby in "Tobacco Road?" I guess this is not such an uncommon problem. About 25 years ago a fellow in Cane Beds, Arizona was eaten by his pigs.

Members of the Parsi faith have a strange funeral ritual. The body is chopped up and left for buzzards and feral dogs to consume. This could result in some ghastly littering. But for people wanting to return to "dust to dust, ashes to ashes" it might be an alternative.

Or flesh to pig poop.

 

[rufus]

Soylent green.

 

[zazouse]

Soylent green.

I remember that movie it was in 1973 guess i am telling my age.LOL

 

[rufus]

Soylent Green was the last movie made with Edgar G. Robinson.

 

[rufus]

At the time the movie was made, he was dying of cancer. He never revealed that fact.