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Funerals
You may also wish to look at the Commemorative Events and Cemeteries pages of this web site.

Church and Religious Funerals:

Civil and Humanist Funerals:

Bedfordshire Registration Service offers a civil funeral service as an alternative to a religious ceremony
British Humanist Association offers a national network of officiants for people who have chosen to live their lives without religion.

Funeral Directors:

Green Funerals and Woodland Burials:

Bedford Crematoria and Cemetery
Keysoe woodland burial site (site in preparation, planning permission recently granted)
Olney Green Burial Ground

Mausoleums and Burial Chambers:

These are offered by Bedford Crematoria and Cemetery. See Cemeteries for contact details.

Responsibility for deceased:

Local Authorities have a duty to arrange a funeral when it becomes apparent that a deceased person has no friends or family able to make appropriate funeral arrangements or take the responsibility for paying the fees involved. For more information contact the relevant local borough or district council

Page last updated: 17th March 2008