For various reasons, the folks of Eugene Weekly’s editorial team got curious about how one goes about burying a body in the backyard within legal parameters.
We figured the Home and Gardening issue would be the perfect place to figure it out, seeing that it’s the ultimate intersection between the two: How to start pushing up daisies on your property.
It turns out that spending eternity in your own backyard is relatively common (just ask Elvis Presley). Devon Ashbridge, Lane County’s public information officer, reports that Lane County Land Management receives about one private burial application per year…