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

[Queen]

Dad kept my great-aunt's ashes in his car trunk for a year or two before he was able to fulfill her wishes to be scattered in another state.

One of the guys over on AdventureRider (the motorcycling site I hang out at), did a ride report complete with pictures of taking his mom on her last ride...it was quite touching to read and seemed like a great way to work up to the "letting go" part.

 

[shark.byte.usa]

That's cool, something I'd consider. I suppose you could go for a cheaper option, but that cost plus the cremation, compared to a typical cemetary burial w/casket, headstone, burial plot, etc, is darn cheap and a whole lot more appealing to me.

I agree though I don't like the ball shape's, looks like some alien pod or something. would be kinda spooky to come across some field of reefballs on a dive oneday.

I'd also want it to be put where I wanted it, which at this point wouldn't be in the carribean someplace.

 

[MissyP]

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.
Dion

Same goes for me... I decided about 2 years ago that was how I wanted to spend 'eternity'.. Surrounded by (marine) life forever... My family understands why I chose that option and respects my decision.

 

[el ridgeo]

I heard about eternal reefs a year or so ago and thought it was a great idea. But when I mentioned it to my brother he said to forget it. He said if I go before him he's going to take my carcass to a taxidermist and have me stuffed in a standing position with my index fingers pointing to each other so he can hang a roll of toilet paper on them.
Oh well, as long as I don't have to pay for it...

 

[bob1dp]

The Mafia has been doing this for years. Usually just your feet are placed I cement however.

 

[MissyP]

I heard about eternal reefs a year or so ago and thought it was a great idea. But when I mentioned it to my brother he said to forget it. He said if I go before him he's going to take my carcass to a taxidermist and have me stuffed in a standing position with my index fingers pointing to each other so he can hang a roll of toilet paper on them.
Oh well, as long as I don't have to pay for it...

:rofl: ok that's one of the funniest things I've read in a while !!! Your brother is pretty cool, lol!

 

[StSomewhere]

The Mafia has been doing this for years. Usually just your feet are placed I cement however.

Only when a stadium isn't conveniently being constructed.

 

[el ridgeo]

:rofl: ok that's one of the funniest things I've read in a while !!! Your brother is pretty cool, lol!

Please don't encourage him

 

[H2Andy]

i've always thought that after i'm dead, i pretty much won't care anymore about
anything relating to my remains...

i do, however, have a weakness for the following idea (courtesy
of Robert Johnson):

you can bury my body
down by the highway side

i say, bury my body
down by the highway side

so that my evil spirit
can catch a Greyhound bus
and ride

 

[CIBDiving]

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.

I have enough trouble with people trying to drop anchors on me, run me over with water craft and snag me with fishing gear NOW - I don't want that for eternity!!!