I have just done a quick check on Google and found out that 70% of people in the UK are now cremated. Even so there are problems in finding land if people want to be buried. The UK Government are proposing changing the law to reuse burial plots. This news article gives more details :-
http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk…-name_page.html
If you can work it so Cindy Crawford is buried on me, and you never tell my wife, I’ll make sure your grandkids have full college tuition. 
It is - you’ll have to get permission, but that should generally be quite easy to obtain.
Just curious about Danish law. I think we can safely assume there aren’t armies following private citizens around in thier boats. Should you dump the remains in the sea, how do the Danish authorities know about it? And what is the punishment? Of course, being American and guessing they aren’t videotaping this, I don’t see how they could prosecute without evidence. I can’t see them skimming the sea since this would open the bereaved to suits from England, Sweden, Norway, France and Germany. Wouldn’t it be a tax issue?
Why does the govenrment require you to get permission for burial at sea? You’re just dumping some dirt overboard.
I haven’t been able to find out exactly why - I think the keywords here is “burial of remains” - whatever way it’s done, in a churchyard or at sea, etc., you’re not “dumping some dirt”, you’re burying af person.
According to danish law you can only bury someone in places where the authorities (in this case the Department (Ministry) of church affairs) have given permission to do so. That’s, in almost any case, church yards. So if you want to bury someone somewhere else (than a church yard), you’ll have to get permission from the Department of church affairs. Also, according to the law, you can only bury someone outside church yards if they are cremated.
I’ve no idea what the punishment is - possibly a fine? If you’re ever found out, that is. I don’t think anyone would see this as a serious crime 
duffer: what do you mean about it being a tax issue?
According to the book “The Secret Life of Dust”, 25% of Americans opt for cremation, and by 2010, it’ll be about 40%. Not at all a small percentage, though the author did note that in some parts of the US, it’s less popular.
But in Chicago they still vote!
In Rome, Paris, Berlin, and San Francisco, among other places, the bodies are gathered up every few centuries and moved to catacombs, mass graves, or just out in the countryside where it won’t become city for a hundred years.
What about the ~50,000 people who died in Iran?
San Francisco? What year was that done in?
In Japan, cremation’s pretty much required, and even then it seems like a lot of useful land is being taken up by cemeteries. As for the cremains, if you’re doing anything other than keeping them at a cemetery, a temple, or your own home, you need a special permit to do so. Reasons for this are just speculation on my part:
Funerals and the regular spiritual upkeep ceremonies are a huge source of income for Buddhist temples, and I can imagine them lobbying the government to forbid people from taking a DIY approach.
It’s kind of like the rule in the US about declaring income from illegal activities. There have been a number of cases where the police couldn’t get enough evidence for a murder conviction, but were able to get a conviction with a stiff sentence for “improper disposal of remains”.
I like the phrase Stiff sentence for improper disposal of remains
Around 1914-37. The city of San Francisco banned further burials in municipal cemetaries in 1900, and a while later, had all the cemetaries evicted, and the bodies moved to the city of Colma, further down the penninsula.
Hey, at least we didn’t make frigging hallways out of the corpses, like in Paris.
Ranchoth
(“It’s great to be alive in Colma!”)
