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...
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 ...
Choose Your Final Interment Plan 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 o...
My parents’contracts were titled, “Authorization for the Burial at Sea of Cremated Remains, Cape Henry Lighthouse – CSV.” The coordinates CSV provided were perfect. EPA’s coordinates were about 5-6 miles south. See for yourself…