Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

What happens on death in trnc , burial , cremation or back to country of origin and what choices do family members have ?????????????????????

Only two options here - burial or back to country of origin. I'm a bit confused as to what you mean but "family choice". You would do what ever the deceased had stipulated I would have thought. Unless of course someone had stated they wished to be buried back in the UK and there just wasn't the money to do that. It's not cheap!!

Cremation is illegal throughout Cyprus.
Wife wants cremating so it will be a fire in the back yard or pay the several thousand pounds to ship her remains back to England and then all the gubbins there.

Me, Greenhills probably. At end of the day all you become is a load of flesh and bones that is no good to anyone so why spend a fortune disposing of it. As long as you stipulate what you want doing with your remains in a legally registered will then family SHOULD have no arguments withyour wishes, I know it does not always work like that and families have been known to have big feuds.

I agree cyprusishome. Sadly my other half is in Greenhills (which is a beautiful location)when you get up there!!He always said that I could put him in a black bin bag for the binman!! Not a nice topic but,I think this is some thing that everyone living here should think about seriously.

Owllady,
Wife can go in bin bag but the cats get a proper send off!!!

Sorry!! Over the years I have become a strong advocte of bringing death out of the closet, it is going to happen to all of us, like it or not. We have no control over when or where we will die so everyone should be aware or your wishes and abide by them. We made my parents do an extra to their wills to indicate what sort of ceremony, where, flowers or not, songs at crem etc. They then included the details with their Co-op funeral policies. When Mum died last year the very nice youg lady undertaker found it very useful for her as well.

My only hope is that the life I move onto next is as good or better than this one has been.

Hi cyprusishome.I was trying to be light hearted. Neither myself of my other half were religious and so it was a Humanist service.It was conducted by Marion (moderator on this forum)and was exactly what he would have wanted.

Humanist thing is what we did for my mother, brilliant lady who sat down with the family for a couple of hours then wrote a piece which she read out at crem which had everyone in tears by the end - in a good way as everyone came out smiling and saying "did your mum really do those things" we had dug up from the depths of our combined memories of what we had remembered and of what mum had told us over the years. Yes my view is a light hearted one and it sometimes upsets others who think that death is one of those Victorian things of seen and not heard!!!

A person after my own heart.Marion did a brilliant speech and as you say all from talking to me before hand.We had his favourite song Mack the Knife played as well.Everyone's feet were tapping,a light hearted affair, as he wanted!!! We really didn't want the" hole in the ground",but accepted that as we live here.

Chelwood: If that was a serious question, the British Cemetary Committee have a scheme whereby you can pre-pay for a burial plot - very reasonable by UK standards and earns a miniscule interest and refundable on demand. The only snag is the new cemetary is so innaccessible some of us may only get there where we are in no condition to appreciate it!

I believe the Foreign Residents Assocation do a similar scheme.

Yes,my husband and I(sounds like the Queen)bought a joint plot in 2006,cost £800 and a TINY bit of interest each year,no prob.All arrangements except family flowers were sorted and it cost just over £400 .No problem and the Cemetery Committee were very helpful.The one thing you may not be aware of here,is that someone has to "dress" the deceased as there is no undertaker as we know in the UK.Two friends of mine who were ex nurses volunteered!!.