Hindu's cremation battle

A Hindu man who wants the right to be cremated on a traditional funeral pyre after he dies has taken his case to Britain's Court of Appeal.

Lawyer Rambert de Mello said client Davender Ghai, 71, wanted to be cremated on a wood pyre that is open to the sky.

Ghai said that he wanted his "soul to arise from the flames like the mythical phoenix, not be incinerated in an industrial furnace".

A High Court judge ruled last year that such pyres are forbidden by British law, which states that all cremations must take place within a building with a wall and a roof.