Reef Ball-after you die, what R U doing??

[almitywife]

Hello,
finally getting hubby to do his will and he (kinda) excited that when he dies (one day), his ashes can be made into a artificial reef.

Ref: http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Ref: http://www.reefball.com/reefballcoalition/index.html

so, does anyone have any stories, involvement with this and can tell me their thoughts??

thanks
LSL

 

[dlndavid]

Well I don't know about getting excited about moving on to the afterlife, but the artificial reef thing is cool and spooky at the same time. Must give this more thought, I must.

 

[almitywife]

absoultely not excited about the death part - but its a reality of life, its going to happen one day.....

we just been to a funeral and it was so sad and painful, so it got us talking and this reef ball idea actually brought us some peace on the whole "will-what happens" talk.

LSL

 

[Don Burke]

Hello,
finally getting hubby to do his will and he (kinda) excited that when he dies (one day), his ashes can be made into a artificial reef.

Ref: http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Ref: http://www.reefball.com/reefballcoalition/index.html

so, does anyone have any stories, involvement with this and can tell me their thoughts??

thanks
LSL

I worked for an outfit that cast and deployed them.

That is me on the left.
http://www.artificialreefs.org/Photogallery/seasearch/tn_dsc02104_jpg.jpg

The Eternal Reefs people are making reefs, not cemetaries, so your reefball will end up in amongst other reef materials, sometimes other reefballs, sometimes rubble. You need to make your wishes known in this regard.

I think it is a good way to make a memorial.

 

[almitywife]

I worked for an outfit that cast and deployed them.

That is me on the left.
http://www.artificialreefs.org/Photogallery/seasearch/tn_dsc02104_jpg.jpg

The Eternal Reefs people are making reefs, not cemetaries, so your reefball will end up in amongst other reef materials, sometimes other reefballs, sometimes rubble. You need to make your wishes known in this regard.

I think it is a good way to make a memorial.

Thanks, and understood - and we still quite sold on the whole idea... for us, its a prefered alternative to what our choices were before we found this. Then again, postive thoughts and good actions will hopefully mean we wont need this for many many many years to come.

 

[Dion]

I discovered this option a few years back and I have already told my family that's what I want. Its one dive trip I won't mind waiting a while to go on though.

I didn't see the price listed, anyone know the price range?

Dion

 

[almitywife]

I discovered this option a few years back and I have already told my family that's what I want. Its one dive trip I won't mind waiting a while to go on though.

I didn't see the price listed, anyone know the price range?

Dion

according to these links http://www.eternalreefs.com/reefs/planning.html or http://www.reefball.com/reef.htm , scroll down and the prices listed are scary.. heheh, and im in Australia so its more than scary with the exchange rate! Oh well......
LSL

 

[mxracer19]

...Its also one dive trip you KNOW you wont be coming back from

 

[crisis_12]

I saw something about these guys on the news last month-Fox I think...

The mid-range prices don't seem that much more than for a conventional funeral-casket, plot, piper, good scotch, and other associated fees.

Its actually a very constructive approach to the whole death thing.

 

[CBulla]

This has been a game plan of mine for years, its even in my will! I'm to be made into two reef balls, placed near eachother and named Colin's Reef. My wife calls it something else, but thats our own joke!