Burial At Sea
I’m sure we’ve all heard of a burial at sea. There are many ways of going about it, from weighing down the body wrapped in cloth and elaborate ceremonies and speeches, or simply dumping the poor sod overboard. The Neptune Society has a new idea, though. Create and artificial reef with weird Atlantean architecture and bury people there.
I’m not sure what I think about it. On one hand the idea is novel and interesting. On the other they won’t take bodies, only cremated remains, and I think finding a body down there would be kind of cool. Also it would make it hard to visit and have a drink at the grave of the dearly departed.
Would you want to be buried underwater?
November 27th, 2007 at 6:28 am
In some ways that seems egregiously tacky. All I can think of is those seashell kitsch things you get at Florida rest stops. On the other hand I’d like it if they allowed actual bodies, so that it’d be strewn with skeletons, preferably posed in the throes of Atlantean disaster.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:56 am
I wouldn’t care if I was buried underwater, underground, dumped in a creek, stuffed and mounted, or even turned into a ride at Slippy Village.
I agree that seeing skeletons would be neato-dorito, though.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:48 am
To space with me!
November 27th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Yeah, but what do you want us to do with your body?
November 27th, 2007 at 9:40 am
I keep thinking of the old tune Bury Me in a Cemetery…
November 27th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I think you’d have to write new lyrics. “I want people to swim through my grave” might be an adaptation. Or you could just sing it while gargling, to get that drowning aesthetic.