This section addresses common questions about cremation and burial in the UK, and points towards further sources of information and data.
- Aren’t cemeteries and churchyards the same thing?
- How many cemeteries are there?
- Who owns burial sites?
- What is natural burial?
- Aren’t there a lot of closed cemeteries?
- How many people are cremated, and how many buried?
- How much does in cost to be buried or cremated?
- What’s direct cremation all about?
- Isn’t the cost of funerals regulated?
- Isn’t it illegal to disturb human remains?
- Are we running out of burial space?
- Aren’t they re-using graves in London?
- What would happen to the old monuments if cemeteries were to be re-used?
- How do we protect cemeteries?
- Isn’t the Law Commission currently reviewing burial and cremation law?
