it and it is the part of this story that makes me the most angry.
I rang the cemetery office at Harling on the Monday. A woman called Pauline answered on the fourth ring.
It took eleven minutes.
A grave space at St Osyth’s is held under a deed of exclusive right of burial. Alwyn Creed is the registered owner of that deed and has been since 1958, and he has the paper, in a tin, in his room.
The owner of the deed can give written instructions about who is to be buried in it, including himself. There is a form. It costs nothing.
He did not need a wife. He needed a form and somebody to post it.
And the second half: a person with no next of kin can appoint somebody to arrange their funeral, and set out their wishes, and — this is the bit Pauline said
