Anyone for an Environmentally Friendly Sea Burial?

Yeh let's chuck more waste into the sea.

Dig a hole put me in it, plant an Oak or Yew on top (pls check dead frst)

I have this arrangement with the sharks. I don't go into the sea and they don't come into the bar.

This looks like fun. The coffin disintegrates, releasing the body. A few days later, it washes ashore, causing a panic. I'm sure the police will simply love it. And of course, so too, will health authorities. Who knows what pathogens the body may be hosting that may eventually find its way into the food-chain, particularly filter-feeders like bivalves.....

Just imagine doing this in Japan, where raw seafood is the national dish.....

Hi all,

a couple of points:

• Almost all things we put in a "hole" can leach out with rain water which finally reach the sea.
• The original post talks about "ashes", so no corpse would appear on the shores. I don't think anybody could distinguish if in the sea water reaching the shore there are some suspended or diluted human ashes
• Someone really knows what is cremation? Those ashes you get in a more or less pretty vessel aren't the whole ashes produced, just a small part. Remaining is disposed.

Sorry, I've put three points. Anyway I don't mind what would happen to my corpse once dead. It's a problem I let to my inheritors (perhaps the only heritage)

"I can think of worse ways to be sent off."

So can I. I think I'll wait a good long while, though, maybe I won't have to go...? Anyway, when/if I do, I don't expect to be too worried about how I'm shuffled off. Presumably there are now some air quality regulations preventing my favorite method - the old traditional Viking burning ship...

Absolutely nuts.

These idiots seem to think that the ocean can cope with just being the refuse agency for the planet.

These days, most deceased are injected with embalming fluid, and even after a year or more "underground" there has not been much decomposition.

Imagine those bodies being consumed by small fish, crabs etc, and the toxic products moving up the food chain.

No Siree, that should be stopped as an idea.

Kind Regards....

"These days, most deceased are injected with embalming fluid"

Really "most"?

I don't know much about your country or region specific tendencies, but I suppose you know a great world population percentage lives under the "poverty threshold" and when people is aware if they could have anything for dinner I don't think they are worried about pollution and even less on embalming.

Just add the India and China populations, compare the result with the whole world population and you'll get the answer. Furthermore: Have you see the Ganges river plenty of human ashes?.

Anyway I agree with you that "ocean can't cope with just being the refuse agency for the planet." But I'm sure that if we make a chemical analysis on any part of the oceans, we will find the main pollutants come from human activities (death excluded)