Standing Room Only

Having worked in the funeral industry in one way or another since I was a child, this is, in my opinion, a completely asinine idea.

A cemetery in Australia will soon be offering people the chance to be buried feet first.

A company in Victoria state has been given permission to open a vertical cemetery, where bodies are buried standing up and without coffins.

It is an environmentally-friendly and cheaper option, says Tony Dupleix, director of the firm Palacom.

Once stable, the site - in Derrinallum, 180 km (110 miles) from Melbourne - would be turned into grazing land.

"When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment," said Mr Dupleix.

"You are not burning 90kg of gas in a crematorium and there's no ongoing maintenance costs."

What an absolute joke. Damn dirty hippies probably came up with this.