Is it law (in australia) that your not allowed to be buried in your own backyard?

Question

I was just wondering cos im like gonna get burnt, not buried.

Answer 1

Your question certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase "Down-Under" !!

I don't know the legal answer - sorry about that.
Thinking it through, though ... I would say it depends on the land usage situation.

(I'm puzzled by the previous post which imagines that Aussies have a hereditary monarchy, with unusual privileges and exemptions.)

It might be fine, actually, way out in a remote rural area.
Common sense tells you that a corpse would break down in useful ways, long before it contaminated the water supply or spread infection.

OK, so far. But people don't die of nothing, and often of an infectious disease, and bodies were historically always taboo, because the first stage of decomposition is to harmful bacteria, right? I suppose it depends what you intend to die of .

But if you have a backyard, that means that you are part of a community, which has people living at close quarters to each other, and using their yards for common piping for water, electricity, gas, wiring. And some guys have to maintain that.

My friends live in a small town and they returned from a visit abroad to find sewage all over their garden - someone's sewage tank blew up and the effects spread through the system, terminating in their garden, throwing off the manhole cover with gross results. I would be worried about the feedback to the living.

Having said that, if you mean a backyard as in on the lands of a farm in the outback, well, who is going to know, why not? Have them dig you a grave as deep as you are tall - after you are dead, of course - and leave a few dollars in the will, to quench their thirst, mate!

Rest in peace : )

Answer 2

I don't know about Australia, but U.S.A. you can't bury a human let alone a pet in the backyard, but as long as nobody knows about it then you can do it, they say it is environmental hazards, animals die all the time in the wild above ground, below, in rivers, they want you instead to pay $ to go to a pet cemetary and bury your dog. Humans on the other hand, if somebody years from now digs up your yard for construction of a highway they might find the bones and think it was a murder or something, I guess if you are royalty or pay enough money you could bury on the property though.

Answer 3

The reason why this law was made was to protect new home owner from any object that will contaminate their water supplies. Also, it would not be fun trying to plant a flower to find a skeleton, at which you are to notify the police and they will have to do a research on the body.
The only way that they will allow a body to be burried in the back yard is if that house have a family burrial site on the yard and has approval from the government.

Answer 4

who wants to get buried in your own backyard, not a good idea hun

Answer 5

During the colonial era of eastern Australia, it was.

Answer 6

Well, yes, you can't bury a body anywhere except in a cemetery. But you can scatter ashes anywhere.

Answer 7

If no-one finds out who really gives a damn, mate.

Answer 8

if it is like it is over here in the states then yes it is

Answer 9

who the hell would barrie themselves in their own backyard to begin with?

Answer 10

Ummm...I think that is usually the case EVERYWHERE.