First thing he said was that is exactly the way to go, lifetime tenant agreement, and he has personal experience of this himself as he owns a part share of his mum's house which his brother can live in for his lifetime after his mother passed away a few years back. My friend intends to will his share to his partner's daughter (He's been her dad all of her life). You need to speak to a solicitor outside of the Will and draw up a lifetime tenancy agreement, this is separate from the Will but will be a legally binding agreement and then you should will the property to whoever you wish to receive it on expiry of the lifetime tenancy.
Actually there is no legal requirement to follow funeral plans that may be expressed in a will and the deceased won't be able to complain, unless comeback and haunt them....
David Bowie got it right, off to the fire, get it over and done with, without all the fuss. Perhaps selfish of me to think that way, as people do need to grieve, but I respect him for the choice he made and the fact that he was able to force it to be expedited Also I understand where you are coming from with this comment mate to some degree maybe.
my old dad was a long time member of a religious cult. i was brought up in it--but left in my 20's. although he never put it in his will--i think he would have wanted a service carried out by a church member..but i was having none of it. i hated the cult and all it stood for. i arranged a very simple funeral--no service or words--just a simple committal. i told no one he had died. just 2 friends of mine came with me for some kind of support--not needed--and a couple of staff from his care home. i bet they wondered what the hell had happened. the bill for that lot--no flowers--simple coffin--a hearse--pall bearers..cremation fee--plus a doctors bill for pronouncing him dead...blew a giant hole in three grand !!
A friend of mine died recently and nobody can go to her funeral next Friday. It is only possible to attend via webcam. (I would imagine immediate family will be allowed to go)
Sorry to hear that Graham, yes immediate family would be able to attend, even now, I hope it stays that way in the coming weeks that immediate family can still grieve properly. The extended tragedy in all this is that so many will be unable to grieve for friends and family even where it has nothing to do with SARS-Cov-2, because they simply won't be allowed to attend. I for one don't want to be in the position where I am forced to attend a funeral remotely via the internet, I dread that situation, that event And at the same time I don't want to be the cause of people suffering these kind of choices, hence my personal desire to just get put in a box quietly and either buried or burned, I'd rather everyone got together to remember me later when it might be safe, my personal demise is not that important in the scheme of things.
Coronavirus: Wills 'being signed on car bonnets' amid lockdown: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52215141
My wife's late dad had his 10 year anniversary which meant his body and grave had to be renewed. So they moved his body together with his dead wife. Don't know how to put this but my wife and her family took photos of his corpse posing next to him. I remember him with his best suit on in his coffin when he was first buried. Don't know what they call those concrete boxes they are placed in. I don't agree with all that moving bodies around. And one of the wifes sister put a photo of herself next to the deceased on Facebook. Seems sick to me but it's there culture. Told my wife just cremate me when I die and throw the ashes in the sea.
My wife had a similar experience with her late husband, his side of the family were not keeping up with burial ground payments so my wife had to collect him and move him to a public cemetery. Not something I could do. Like you I want to end up free in the sea when I go, but my choice is the river Mersey Liverpool my home city.
