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woodland burials
The Bishop of Burnley has consecrated a bit of woodland so that a family could have a Christian burial there. It sounds like a lovely idea, a beautiful peaceful setting. Apparently if you opt for a woodland burial you must have a bio-degradeable coffin (looked like a woven basket) and plant a tree rather than have a headstone. Very nice. Then I suddenly thought - what happens in future years if somebody unearths a skeleton? No headstone, no traces of a coffin. Would it lead to a possible murder enquiry?
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