why is it illegal to bury people in your backyard?

Question

not kill and bury them but if like my kid dies instead of putting them in a grave far away why can't i bury them in the backyard?

assuming everyhting it done correclty you dig a hole deep enough not near pipes body is perserved correclty then you bury it in your yard. what if your yard is bigger then a cemertary

Answer 1

Health hazards. This is also why you can't bury a horse or cow, and in cities can be banned from burying your dog... A decomposing body can contaminate water, introduce dangerous pathogens to the soil, and if not buried deep enough, draw scavengers.

So if you really wanted to keep the remains of your loved one, you'd have to consider cremation.

Not to mention, the resale value of the home would plummet.

Answer 2

Well this is sort of a odd topic...on 06/14/2007 a lady who gave birth to a child after 17 weeks in a womb was allowed to bury her premature child in her back yard as the child didn't qualify for burial until 20 weeks. However this was in the land down under and there are many countries that do this.
In Colorado you can bury somebody in the back yard if you have the right permits. The body must be embalmed and refrigerated for at least 24 hours after death to risk disease. The other downside is that if you decide to move to another house, the body stays in the dirt thus risking the new owners of stealing the stuff from the casket.
Some people would like just do the cremation so they can move their loved one w/o the hassle of going to though the city to get permits and embalming the body. Each state is different, so check with your local government to see if this is ok...and the neighbors.

Answer 3

There was a show about burials not long ago on PBS
Most townships wont allow it .
You don't have to have them embalmed with formaldehyde. There are religious rituals that forbid this.
There are many private cemeteries around.
You can have the coffin and services at home.
Some areas you cannot be buried in the ground but in a crypt.
The "Churches" and funeral directors will fight you on this, so be prepared for a fight.
There are some graves in my backyard but that isn't talked about.
Often times the land is sold and no one knows about the graves or an unconcerned seller will remove the markers and if it is discovered later it creates a mess for the local law enforcement. Our city had a situation similar a few years ago.

Answer 4

It is legal in 37 states. In Tenn, a person who dies at home never has to leave the property, if they died of obvious, natural causes (like a cancer patient).

When the person dies, you call the Coroner, who comes to the house and issues a death certificate. You then have three days to get them in the ground. They don't need to be embalmed or have a casket. You can bundle Gramma up her own bedsheets and chunk her in a hole in the backyard.

There are requirements to doing this, of course. The hole must be six feet deep, you must preclude livestock from trampling the site (a fence), and you must provide access to all kin and descendants. You also have to register the gravesite on your property deed and disclose it to any future buyers. The rules are generally the same for the other states, as well.

Answer 5

nicely, there are thoughts. in case you bury the canine interior the backyard, the possibilities are high, finally somebody else will own the valuables and dig up the canine together as setting up backyard sprinklers or a pool or something else. in case you have your canine buried in a puppy cemetary it is respected, the canine will in all danger stay in his burial spot plenty longer, yet there won't be an identical risk-free practices of that staying for a real long term if the cemetary land is bought and now no longer overseen via in spite of corporation presently does this. you've your canine cremated and save the ashes in a custom made or crematory presented urn. this could flow with you whevever you flow. in my opinion, if there became right into a backyard I knew became into going to stay in my family members for something of my life i could in all danger think of roughly burial interior the backyard in spite of the "regulations". I had a German Shepherd canine and her maintains to be are in an urn. whilst i comprehend the place i visit be buried or if I decide on cremation and scattering, i desire the scattering jointly. those are own thoughts and that i think of it helps to do what feels maximum suitable with the destiny in sight. lots of the time, the illegality of digging interior the city in spite of if your backyard or no longer is greater on the difficulty of making specific you do no longer dig in a community the place there are pipes or cables that is broken or broken and impression the community.

Answer 6

No. Of course not. Graveyards are permanent, state owned real estate. One day you too will die, even if you never move, and the property will be worthless with a dead kid 6 feet under the swingset.

Answer 7

Actually...I don't know. My first thought was smell and decomposition...but then I thought about cemetaries, but they don't smell and arent cesspools of rotting sickness filled bodies. I don't think you can bury them in your backyard because they think you might hit pipelines or something when you dig the hole? or maybe they are afraid dogs will dig them up...but they don't for a cemetary so idk.

Answer 8

Well, when bodies decompose the smell is pretty bad. Not to mention the health hazard, it isn't sanitary.

Answer 9

Don't want to think of your kid dying but....I think if people did that, it could get into your well water or, if your in a city, everyone's water.

Answer 10

i think it's respect for the dead. cemeteries are for burying the dead correctly. to be laid to rest. back yard isn't where you want to bury someone....