15 Jul 2006
Funeral pyre starts legal wrangle

According to this article, open-air funeral pyres have been illegal in the UK since 1930. Yet when foot and mouth disease ran rampart in Britain in 2001, the recommended procedure was to destroy the cattle and burn the carcasses. In open air pits.

My question is why it's illegal to burn a human body, which probably weighs less than 200 pounds, while it's sometimes mandatory to burn a cow carcass, which can weigh up to a ton.

The open air cremation of a Sikh man in the North East provokes a legal row among police and council chiefs.

(link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

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