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Chickenz wrote:As a question exactly what happens when such a big animal dies? I know smaller creatures get buried in the garden and what not but what do you do with a Hoss?

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Maybe we could hold off on that "stuff" for a bit...

Rubbish news Friz, sorry to hear it. Imagine how happy it will have been though, I don't doubt it was well looked after. A good life and a dignified death. That's the Deagostini way.

Large animals normally get collected and are given a cremation.
Well, that's how things happen here.

spoodie wrote:

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Glue factory, or is that a bit out of date now?

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Maynards wine gums?

Glue factory I think is out of date

New Zealand send them to the dog food factory

The french eat them

We send them to the hunt kennels for hound food, but only if they're fit for consumption.

In this case the horse had lots of painkillers and horse tranq so was cremated, also at the hunt kennels which has an incinerator for burning the bits of dead cow they don't feed to the hounds.

The way I see it...cremation is the "new" Viking Funeral which is the way I'm gonna go unless...I can have a traditional Viking Funeral

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcsFPiQq94[/media]

A Viking funeral would be an awesome way to go (if I could actually trace any viking ancestry). Personally I'd go for cremation just because I wouldn't like to take up space.

Well, for those in the UK, a 'Viking funeral' can't be done off the shore, you need to be in international waters to set the boat alight.

As for a funeral pyre, it cant be done unless you are 5 miles from a population centre of more than 1000 peoples...

...Don't ask...

The Shutting Downs wrote:...Don't ask...

The Shutting Downs wrote: As for a funeral pyre, it cant be done unless you are 5 miles from a population centre of more than 1000 peoples...

...Don't ask...

Can't be done anyway, not legally apparently. There was the stuff in the paper about a bloke wanting a traditional Hindu or Sikh funeral pyre for either his death or of a family member, and being turned down by the council due to the laws in the UK not too long ago.

Here you go: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8039630.stm

Thats newcastle specific. I looked into it for a friend and most places it's as above.

The difficulty is finding a spot within the required distance from a town.