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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?

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