Foulon costs double

THE cost of burial at Le Foulon Cemetery has more than doubled for 2010.
A typical funeral there will now cost in the region of £5,000.
The charge for a grave plot has now risen from £750 last year to £1,536, while the general burial fee has gone up from £700 to £1,433.
Both costs will increase again in 2011 to a target figure of £2,000 for a plot and £1,700 for burial.
Argent Funeral Services director Jai Vaudin said the increases were outrageous.
‘We hear of Guernsey Post’s monopoly, but where is the Office of Utility Regulation now?’ he asked.
‘As a St Peter Port resident myself with a family, I wonder where we can be buried when we die. We can’t go anywhere else as the other parishes won’t take us and the average cost of plots elsewhere is about £250.’
All other charges at Le Foulon have increased by 2.4%, in line with September’s RPIX figure. It means the cost of cremation rises from £460 to £471.
The increased fees for grave plots and burial fees are in line with phased charges implemented by the Treasury and Resources Department 12 months ago.

(from thisisguernsey)

Good Old Guernsey Greed! It will of course mainly affect the poor pensioners (who by their very name are nearer to having a need for the facility than most!) When my late husband died I asked Gary (Jai's brother) who conducted the funeral whether it would be possible to have a cardboard coffin - the answer was positively 'negative'!!!! (I can only assume that Elf 'n Safety thought it might be dangerous as it might catch fire at the crematorium!!!!

I think we covered all the angles when this legislation was first past!
Unless we put a limit on plot possession(say 10yrs) then the problem can only get worse.It's quite a cheap plot if you consider the cost of land in the SPP area!

I'm a scatter me ashes type myself

another reason for me to spend all my money and let the state keep me..

If my goat dies, I would not be allowed to bury it in at home because of risk of polluting water - yet we continue to bury human bodies at the Foulon which has a stream used by the water board!! Compulsory cremation or export bodies elsewhere for burial, I say.
Zac

i want to be cremated anyway and half my ashes scatterd here and the other half beside my mothers ashes in scotland .

Thistle wrote:i want to be cremated anyway and half my ashes scatterd here and the other half beside my mothers ashes in scotland .

I agree with Thistle half in Austria and half with my father and brother in Guernland.

Zac wrote:If my goat dies, I would not be allowed to bury it in at home because of risk of polluting water - yet we continue to bury human bodies at the Foulon which has a stream used by the water board!! Compulsory cremation or export bodies elsewhere for burial, I say.
Zac

that one does not go to the main water catchment area .it goes down to the track to feed the marsh lands

I suggest that you look at water-catchment map - available to public.

wow, so expensive...