What happens to a person when they die with no family to arrange a funeral?

Question

In the uk that is. Will they be buried somewhere or cremated? Is their grave marked and if so how?

Answer 1

The local authority of their place of death has the responsibility for undertaking arrangements. They will be entitled to enter the home of the person concerned and will apply any money found towards the funeral arrangements. What will happen next will depend on whether or not there is a will, as a will might stipulate a certain disposal of the body. The normal arrangement will be for a cremation and if there is no next of kin to claim the ashes, then these will be scattered. On the one occasion when I became involved in something of the kind, I was asked (as a friend of the deceased) whether there was a family grave in the locality and I was told that the local authority would be prepared to arrange a burial as an act of kindness if this were possible. Unfortunately the family grave was far away and I did not know quite where. The lady in question did have next of kin, but they had disowned her and would not get involved.)

My husband was involved in another case where an old lady died without any family and as the will had stipulated a burial, but she had been very poor, he and another friend were able to club together to pay for a grave for her. Otherwise she would have been buried in an unmarked "paupers'" or communal grave.

Answer 2

The local council will arrange a funeral. I think the offcial solicitor deals with the financial arragements. It is a cremation

Answer 3

If no person assumes accountability for a deceased man or woman, the physique is disposed of as presented by regulation. In maximum states that's interior reach county or municipal governments; in some that's state; in some a mixture. In some places the wellbeing branch or maybe the police do it yet in maximum disposal is dealt with by interior reach funeral homes under settlement. They prepare & embalm the physique & the two cremate & bury the ashes or truck the physique out to anyplace the interior reach government has presented a burial container. As I are conscious of it extra & extra governments are shifting in the direction of cremation.

Answer 4

The local Council arranges the funeral. They do it as cheaply as possible.

Cremation/burial will depend on the costs of each.

No grave marking.

Answer 5

government funding provides a cremation as it costs too much money and time to find/pay for a plot in a cemetary.
I dont actually know what they do with the ashes though.
There is no plaque etc for them but there will be a death certificate an some other kinds of records but again, i dont know where they will be kept.

Answer 6

they will be cremated and only the funeral people go the ones that burn them. then they scatter the aches in a council garden with others. the council pay for they funeral to sad really but that's the way it is hope it doesn't happen to me.

Answer 7

The local council arrange it and the cost comes out of the rates.

Answer 8

where do you think the bodies the medical students practice on come from? Bet you could check a hundred caskets and find half empty.

Did you hear about the two seater aircraft that crashed into the Birmingham Alabama cementary? At last count they had already found more than 124 bodies.

Answer 9

It's done by the local authority at a minimum cost and then laid to rest in an unmarked grave, sad really.

Answer 10

You get what used to be termed a DSS funeral. Funded by the State. Cheap as chips coffin etc.