Burial bookings can be taken at our Western Road office Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm and Friday, 9am to 4pm, via the designated Funeral Director.
If necessary, you can contact us direct for help or further information.
Home burials
Scots law does not prescribe any particular method of dealing with those who have passed away.
In normal circumstances, the first issue to arise following a death is whether burial, in a churchyard or cemetery, or cremation would be most appropriate.
The death must be registered and any procurator fiscal interest in the body must be resolved. The body can then be released to the next of kin or executor to make the necessary arrangements.
Relatives or friends may decide on a place other than a churchyard or cemetery for a burial, but this will be subject to restrictions imposed under a number of different statutory provisions. For example public health, planning, pollution or subject to the law of nuisance at common law.
Local statutes may also apply in certain areas.
Repatriation of bodies
When bereaved families wish to take or send the body of a loved one abroad for burial it is essential that the body be accompanied by a certificate issued by the local Environmental Health Service.
This certificate is issued, currently free of charge, and is usually obtained by the local Funeral Director or from Environmental Health.