There seems great dignity about our once-self joining the totality of the sea. It will be akin to the joining the earth as some who wish for a woodland burial must feel - so much better than going up in smoke. There is something so great about the sea and the thought of being with it forever in one way or another is quite a beautiful thing; akin too to being thrust into space.
The handing back of the 4 million metric tonnes of the worlds human dead to the sea each year doesn't look great compared to the 78 million metric tonnes of fish and shellfish we remove from the sea each year but it will help.
The presence of steel bonbon containing the corpse will really help build fish nurseries and generally aid the flora of the sea . The soft human parts will seep gently through the rusting mesh, enhance the growth of vegetation and local sea life especially small fish. The corps will create reefs and with planning these can be shaped as best to protect young fish.
The paraphernalia associated with burial and the fuel spent with cremation will be dispensed with. No coffin other than the bio-destructible brown paper envelope and steel chain mail will save on timber,
timber composites and metal fitting.
The millions of tons of fuel becoming smoke will stop.
Granted getting people to the seaside cemetery will have its own price in energy but where public transport can be invoked this will reduce this. In the first instance of course this is for people on the coast, especially those born and bred there and then as it catches on people from inland will want this type of funeral.
Because the boat that delivers to the sea is not manned this type of funeral can happen in all sea conditions.
This truly seaside cemetery will have all the amenities and reverence of any ordinary cemetery and protection from any weather state.
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