Burying may provide some nutrition for the immediate area's worms and plant life but patently all cremation is doing is raising its imprint of higher CO2 , smoke pollution and energy usage. There is evidence too that upkeep of burial ground in cemeteries exceeds at two or three year the energy used for cremation. In either case there is effectively nothing given back to nature that we could feel proud of.
Imagine this:
You have died. There are no questions over the manner of your death and official clearance is given for a funeral.
All issues of display for relatives, friends and the public are dealt with.
The undertakers now place the body in a thick brown paper bag and it is sealed at the open end.
They then wrap this envelope with steel mail chain several times and the end tied off with steel wire to as to fashion what now looks like a bonbon. ID is attached and the body is chilled till the funeral.
This sea side cemetery is an appropriately hallowed area right on the water's edge. It has no need of grounds for burial nor crematoria.
The sea beside which it lies is deep at low tide and is officially protected against fishing and any water sports.
The facility provides a horse-shoe shaped wharf, mostly covered and the open end of the horseshoe pointing out to sea.
At the land end of the horse shoe is a spur - a double sided pontoon in which a special motor boat
lies.The motor boat has a dais at its stern which can be tipped by remote control so any thing on it can be delivered to the sea and is itself remotely controlled so it's passage away from and its return to its berth can be controlled by a steward of the cemetery.
On the day of the funeral the attendees go to the sea side cemetery and the service is arranged to begin when the hearse arrives and the body is conveyed by the pall bearers to the dais at the back of the motor boat and in full view of the congregation. The minister, priest or celebrant starts the service now in full view of the body. At the end of the service and at the time of the committal a steward of the cemetery takes over and remotely controls the movement of the boat to sea - this movement is
sedate and allows the attendees time to walk to the opening of the horseshoe and watch the boats progress. It move directly out, then, at an appropriate distance, but in full view of all, the boat comes square on, stops and then, at the press of a button, causes the dais to tip and the body is delivered to the sea bed below. The advantages of this type of funeral will soon be discussed.

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