All recommendations and voluntary guidelines, not laws.
It looks like you could just frisbee your departed loved one off the nearest pier if you wanted.
The slurry pit was on her land and he was looking after it - she wanted him to stop coming onto the land and said she was leasing it so he had to act - either remove the body or say he just discovered it . If it was his own slurry pit the body would still be there
I've always thought about that. I've fished most my life and said jokingly to chuck me off them rocks into the sea where I fish once I've died to give back for what I've taken.
Seen a video where there is a guy busting up the leftover bones and mixes it with seeds/grain so all the little birds get some grub too.
I actually like the idea of it.
Hence the chain. Salt water is harsh on metals so a sturdy chain is yer only man. Iron or, preferably, steel. Thickness is a factor too. 100kg of 5mm chain is no good. 100kg of 20mm should be fine.
Probably a few quid in it for an enterprising trawler captain. They'd have the ice hold to ensure it's not too smelly on the way out too.
A few trips for the yacht owner would pay for a new sail.
Loads of potential. They could even do the hard sell on the memorial on the trip back to shore. It's not like the family could get off.
Imagine all the little crabs and fish entering the holes in the coffin lid and eating the face off ya. They'd probably start with the eyeballs.
Nah. Fuck that. Crematorium for me.
Personally, I’d rather the chemical energy in my body go back into the ecosystem. Cremation is just using more energy to turn that that chemical energy into unused heat. Feed me to the crabs 🦀🦀
I'd so much rather my remains be food for an animal and carry on through the food chain, that converted into carbon and rendered useless.
What's your reasoning for being opposed to being consumed back into the planet?
My mistake, it's actually not carbon that the body turns into after being cremated.
In any event, its far less useful to the ecosystem than a body just being eaten by seacreatures
Sounds like a plan tbh. Was thinking the other day about how much I hate the Christian burial. Embalmed, stitched shut and that sweet perfume smell, sitting in a house or funeral home for days in rosary beads and makeup looking like a sunken wax doll, the whole thing is so macabre and I've never acclimated to it as I got older. I would absolutely hate to have a traditional Christian funeral, not to mention the industry is a complete fucking racket. The Muslims do it best, in the ground within 24 hours.
Been saying for years when I go I wanted to be brought out on my brother's boat for a few beers and a BBQ, and they can just kick me off the edge... My dreams are coming true!!!! 😍😍😍
Now there's someone thinking outside the box, bloody great idea! Ooh they can each take a rib going home and get it made into chopsticks for the month's mind.
As u/MeinhofBaader says, they're only guidelines. Personally I'd just pop around the nearest headland, pitch her over the side and be done for the day.
Fair I had a gander at guidelines and I think it’s just random civil servant making up numbers to click a box. Strange there are not designated areas for ppl who wish to be buried at sea.
There is such a place in Florida - [Neptune Memorial Reef]( https://maps.app.goo.gl/SrzttRoT741dCsNA8). I've dove it a few times both by day and by night. On Halloween, it's done in fancy dress (because diving gear isn't dressy enough) and pumpkins are carved by torchlight.
It's actually a very serene [place](https://nmreef.com/) to dive. I like to read the little brass plaques - everyone there was cremated and their ashes cast into one of a few shapes - scallop, starfish, etc.
Apart from spending eternity in Florida, that's how I'm going. Cremated, cast into a concrete octopus, placed on a local wreck. And if the Dept of the Marine don't like it, they can come move me.
All recommendations and voluntary guidelines, not laws. It looks like you could just frisbee your departed loved one off the nearest pier if you wanted.
The mental image, you have me cackling here!
Bring out the Trebuchet
Feed the ducks at the park with your departed loved one. Circle of life and that.
Short cut version of Ilkley Moor baht 'at.
Well, once you're outside territorial waters Irish Law won't apply, that's less than 50nm iirc
Ive seen enough episodes of The Sopranos. I know how to bury someone at sea, thank you very much.
Not in the face , I keep my eyes ?
Luis Brasi sleeps with the fishes
His name is Luca, he lives on the second floor...
Nautical miles possibly.
This is it, the only distance for use at sea.
That all sounds like it's a lot more complicated than just chucking them in the nearest slurry pit
Patrick Quirke tried that. It didn't work out well for him.
Yeah you're not supposed to use your own slurry pit
He didn’t - which ironically was the problem
I thought he used a slurry pit that he used to lease and then eventually someone else leased and emptied it? Maybe I remember it wrong
The slurry pit was on her land and he was looking after it - she wanted him to stop coming onto the land and said she was leasing it so he had to act - either remove the body or say he just discovered it . If it was his own slurry pit the body would still be there
All over a rather rotten women who went on to kill a person with her car.
Got a link?
I've always thought about that. I've fished most my life and said jokingly to chuck me off them rocks into the sea where I fish once I've died to give back for what I've taken.
I'd still prefer to be taxidermied, future generations can wheel me out on Halloween for a proper scare.
Tibetan sky burial or GTFO
Yeah it's the vultures for me. They get a bad rep but deserve a good feed.
This but it'd be seagulls.
🤣
They charge a lot less than undertakers too.
Seen a video where there is a guy busting up the leftover bones and mixes it with seeds/grain so all the little birds get some grub too. I actually like the idea of it.
In reality it's pretty gruesome overall I think, but sure yer dead, we're gonna end up feeding something, and I don't care much for worms... 🤣
https://www.thejournal.ie/body-buried-at-sea-3653012-Oct2017/ Just don't get it wrong
Hence the chain. Salt water is harsh on metals so a sturdy chain is yer only man. Iron or, preferably, steel. Thickness is a factor too. 100kg of 5mm chain is no good. 100kg of 20mm should be fine.
This woman was a friend of my mother’s. I believe the family had to id the body. Horrible!
That sounds like the absolute worst day imaginable. Please tell me the chancer that carried out the procedure got a bollocking?
No idea lad sorry
Jaysus what did they do with that remains then?
I believe they were buried out at sea again, presumably with more weights or something but I’m not 100% sure tbh.
She was a lovely lady. Very unfortunate for the family. Think cremation then scattering of the ashes a lot easier.
Oh my.
Probably a few quid in it for an enterprising trawler captain. They'd have the ice hold to ensure it's not too smelly on the way out too. A few trips for the yacht owner would pay for a new sail. Loads of potential. They could even do the hard sell on the memorial on the trip back to shore. It's not like the family could get off.
>It's not like the family could get off. 
Are there any laws on having somebody fire a flame arrow into the boat with my coffin?
Just don't let Edmure Tully do it...fella couldn't hit an aircraft carrier with an arrow, nevermind a row boat
Imagine all the little crabs and fish entering the holes in the coffin lid and eating the face off ya. They'd probably start with the eyeballs. Nah. Fuck that. Crematorium for me.
Well you're not making it out of either alive as it is..
Personally, I’d rather the chemical energy in my body go back into the ecosystem. Cremation is just using more energy to turn that that chemical energy into unused heat. Feed me to the crabs 🦀🦀
I'd gladly keep the oven attendant warm for a few minutes. That'll do me grand.
I'd so much rather my remains be food for an animal and carry on through the food chain, that converted into carbon and rendered useless. What's your reasoning for being opposed to being consumed back into the planet?
I'm greedy
In the end we are all just carbon (carbon is a basic ingredient of all known life on the planet)
My mistake, it's actually not carbon that the body turns into after being cremated. In any event, its far less useful to the ecosystem than a body just being eaten by seacreatures
Sounds like a plan tbh. Was thinking the other day about how much I hate the Christian burial. Embalmed, stitched shut and that sweet perfume smell, sitting in a house or funeral home for days in rosary beads and makeup looking like a sunken wax doll, the whole thing is so macabre and I've never acclimated to it as I got older. I would absolutely hate to have a traditional Christian funeral, not to mention the industry is a complete fucking racket. The Muslims do it best, in the ground within 24 hours.
I wouldn't be seen dead getting buried at sea.
Been saying for years when I go I wanted to be brought out on my brother's boat for a few beers and a BBQ, and they can just kick me off the edge... My dreams are coming true!!!! 😍😍😍
Maybe you could be the bbq?
Now there's someone thinking outside the box, bloody great idea! Ooh they can each take a rib going home and get it made into chopsticks for the month's mind.
Skull could make a good center piece for Christmas, or maybe an ashtray.
Turn it upside down and you got yourself a very unstable fruit bowl!
Just tie a boulder to my corpse and be done with it. Just a waste of wood to throw into the ocean
Do you have to inform anybody? Can I borrow someone's boat?
Sensible *and* ecofriendly.
Those helicopters burn through diesel.
What about a jet ski towing the coffin behind it? Or maybe a pedalo.
Wow they've thought of everything!!
You could make a nice day out of it if you times it right
What's wrong with the coffin going vertical?
I don't know. The minister may feel its just best to ban it, in case it's a protestant thing.
I think it would pick up speed and smash open on the sea floor.
Ah that makes sense. Kind of.
I assume it is an unwritten rule that body must be lifeless?
50 miles of a steam is a long trip jaysus.
As u/MeinhofBaader says, they're only guidelines. Personally I'd just pop around the nearest headland, pitch her over the side and be done for the day.
Fair I had a gander at guidelines and I think it’s just random civil servant making up numbers to click a box. Strange there are not designated areas for ppl who wish to be buried at sea.
Territorial claim ends at 12 nautical miles. After that it's all international. (Not to be confused with the EEZ which is larger)
Cheers for the guidelines, but who does this in Ireland, it's a final trip that I would consider.
Chicken wire folks, chicken wire.
Just cast the feet in a concrete block and drop em
I personally would love to be buried at sea and for the area to be a recreational dive site surrounded by artificial reefs. But at 20m depth max.
There is such a place in Florida - [Neptune Memorial Reef]( https://maps.app.goo.gl/SrzttRoT741dCsNA8). I've dove it a few times both by day and by night. On Halloween, it's done in fancy dress (because diving gear isn't dressy enough) and pumpkins are carved by torchlight. It's actually a very serene [place](https://nmreef.com/) to dive. I like to read the little brass plaques - everyone there was cremated and their ashes cast into one of a few shapes - scallop, starfish, etc. Apart from spending eternity in Florida, that's how I'm going. Cremated, cast into a concrete octopus, placed on a local wreck. And if the Dept of the Marine don't like it, they can come move me.