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Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Ghana, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Cameroon, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
What to do, including registering the death, post mortems, bringing the body to the UK and getting help from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
You need an exhumation licence if you are removing human remains from the ground
The process when a British national dies in Turkey, including registering the death, funerals and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
Information and advice if a friend or family member has been a victim of murder, manslaughter or has died in suspicious circumstances in India.
Application form for a licence to remove buried human remains (including cremated remains).
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
Information and advice if a family member or friend has been a victim of murder, manslaughter or died in suspicious circumstances in Thailand.
Get a licence to take deer alive for science, education or relocation.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Information and advice if a friend or family member has been a victim of murder, manslaughter or has died in suspicious circumstances in Jamaica.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
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