may look like a lost city akin to the fabled Atlantis, but it's actually an intentionally submerged cemetery made out of cremated remains. The organization calls it the "ultimate green burial opportunity": It recycles remains into funerary structures and memorials that serve as an artificial...
An "underwater city for the dead," the Neptune Memorial Reef off the shore of Key Biscayne, may look like a lost city akin to the fabled Atlantis, but it's actually an intentionally submerged cemetery made out of cremated remains. The organization calls it the "ultimate green burial opport...
Fortunately, Francis had kept a complete file on Anita, so I knew I was missing specifically the one-page “Authorization for the Burial at Sea of Cremated Remains, Cape Henry Lighthouse – CSV” they both had signed in 2017. That form contained fields for “Date Mailed” and “Tracking ...
What remains is mostly open space, save the few items that have earned a perennial place on my altar–the pillow I made at an art therapy session at work with a whole heart on one side and a broken heart on the other (you’ll be happy to note it is currently set in the “whole”...
You can’t start soon enough. Wish I’d been able to do it at school, wish I’d put in an hour a day from the minute I fell in love with the house, wish I’d not assumed I could pick it up easily when I got here. I go to the local free Spanish classes, I watch TV ...
The coffin, the body and anything the person is wearing (including jewellery)will be cremated. The heat and duration of the process means that the only thing that are left are those that do not combust (burn) – bones and the metal parts e.g. metal nails from the coffin and false hip...
In death, as in life, my mother has no still point in a turning world, no single place to call home. When she died, we had her cremated, and her ashes divided. Half we buried in a garden in Philadelphia, a plot where my grandparents planned to be buried, and now are. The other...
Do you want to be buried? Cremated? Donate your body to science? How do you feel about embalming? Before you can make any concretefuneral plans, decide how you want your remains to be handled. This decision will determine your funeral costs and what kind of arrangements will follow. ...
Paul's Cathedral! It was reported that only six people lost their life to the fire, the true number is probably thousands. Author Neil Hanson believes that the poor people who died would have been cremated due to the intensity of the fire and their remains never found....