Burieal laws?

F

feralmerril

Absent Comrade
Joined
Dec 31, 2005
Messages
13,056
Reaction score
7,201
Location
utah
In this day and age, is it legal to just bury someone out in the boonies if you own the land? Yesterday the wife and I were out in the middle of nowhere in spectacular country near zion national park rideing our quad in a very seclueded area. We pulled off the trail to admire the scenery and saw a headstone and grave. It was a guy who died in 2002. I would like to be buried like that! Off by yourself on a high mountain top!
As luck would have it the wifes camera took a dump a few weeks ago. Just down the trail another mile we seen a very impressive "No tresspassing" sign. This rancher had dug a mock grave just past his gate. It looked old timey with a pair of old cowboy boots hanging over the mock grave with a old board sign painted with "here lies the last tresspasser"!
Soon as she gets a new camera I may go back and get a few pictures to post.
 
Register to hide this ad
Merril,

I checked into this a while back, and the answer is that it depends on state law and any local ordinances where you happen to be.

Here in Virginia, it is legal to bury on your own land, and no embalming is required (many states do require embalming, which might be a barrier). However, you do have to file a map showing the location of the grave(s) with the deed at the local clerk of the circuit court, and there are procedures for filing a death certificate signed by a physician with the health department prior to disposition.


I do know that on some reservations, some very traditional Sioux still use elevated scaffolds, much to the irritation of state health officials. In those cases though, the state has no authority to intervene, but there are no Sioux reservations in Utah, of course.


Bullseye
 
Last edited:
wheelieguy said:
Don't know what a Burieal is! Is that Utah-speak for something?
Click to expand...

I see that you're a new member here...so I'll go easy. :)

The true value in feralmerril's posts is in what he has to say, not in how he spells it.

In certain cases, I've learned to look beyond the spelling before making assumptions about people.

feralmerril is one of those people...and I feel that the majority here would agree....:)
 
G-Mac said:
I see that you're a new member here...so I'll go easy. :)

The true value in feralmerril's posts is in what he has to say, not in how he spells it.

In certain cases, I've learned to look beyond the spelling before making assumptions about people.

feralmerril is one of those people...and I feel that the majority here would agree....:)
Click to expand...

Good post G-Mac. Don
 
It's pretty much how Bullseye has described it here in NH as well.

Oh, and we usually don't jump on spelling and the like unless the person has already shown themselves to be a fool. No one here would describe Merril in such a way.
 
Our Friend in Utah

Wheelie Guy,

A while back Merril posted this photo on a thread I started.

IMG_2150.jpg


What caught my eye was the way the man is holding his weapon -- a real rifleman. That told me everything I need to know about our friend in Utah. :D


Bullseye
 
Golly guys! I never knew I had so many friends ! Thanks! However, one other trait I have is a thick hide. That post didnt bother me in the least!
Welcome to the site, spellchecker.
 
G-Mac said:
I see that you're a new member here...so I'll go easy. :)

The true value in feralmerril's posts is in what he has to say, not in how he spells it.

In certain cases, I've learned to look beyond the spelling before making assumptions about people.

feralmerril is one of those people...and I feel that the majority here would agree....:)
Click to expand...

Yes, he is, and I agree. :)
 
Wasn't it Mark Twain that said he had no respect for a man who could only spell a word one way.
 
My personal thought is that the funerary industry is one of the largest unnecessary rip offs in existence. If I'm lucky somebody will bury me in the woods. Otherwise "bugs n crows gotta eat too" Where my soul is going is my biggest concern.
 
wheelieguy said:
Don't know what a Burieal is! Is that Utah-speak for something?
Click to expand...

6 years of university and 2 yars of tek school and I steel can't spel butt I'm sure I no what he said. Wellcom to d 4um. You will see dat dee intelligents an respec is well beyond wat you will fine ells wear. B nise or the mod's will get you. Doeboy
 
Merrils spelling may not be first class but he sure is. My mother in laws ashes are spead at my old place in California. Completely legal there. Her 2 daughters did the deed. I wasn't home at the time or she would have been scattered elsewhere.
 
I want to go out into the woods of the Sierra Nevada, somewhere along the North Fork American, about the three thousand foot level where what's left of the Ponderosas are hundreds of feet tall, and die and rot in place. Some of my molecules will be there as long as the mountain is. That is immortality to me.

I've considered donating my carcass to a school so a bunch of cute nursing students could carve me up but I feel that embalming is barbaric.
 
I am sure it doesnt make any differance where you are buried or cremated. Yet I dont want to be cremated. There just seemed to be something very special about that lone grave overlooking zion parks beauty and high enough where you could see forever. This was just off a dirt ranching road. About 12 years ago I had a housekeeper that lived with me as I needed a nanny as I was fighting for custody of my young daughter and I worked graveyard. She was a divorcee from england with no family. At a distance she even looked like "the nanney" from that old tv show. She had no insurance and died of cancer at my home in bed. It had already cost me a fortune. I ended up "dickering" with the county for her ashs. I went deer hunting and took her with me. I spread her ashs on a high mountain peak in california. I started to say the lords prayer and was interupted by a rifle shot that sounded to be maybe 60 yards away. I hadnt seen a car on the dirt road, looked around and never did see who fired the shot! Kind of gave me pause!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top