Being buried at sea

Lockstep

Ok,serious question.
I'm 18 and when I die I'd like to be buried at sea and was wondering on the legalities of it.

Would I be able to either be thrown in a weighted coffin and thrown overboard or would I be able to be thrown in a floating coffin in the middle of the atlantic?

Thanks

Cian

Sully

Have you had a gander at the charter? You know, the one posters should read BEFORE posting here? :P

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054891512

Anywhome, I dont think people will advise as its not permitted. Interesting question tho.

Radio Mad.

I'm not so sure about dropping coffins in to the sea, but as far as I know there's no problem with cremation.

You are very young to be thinking of this. I sincerely hope nothing is wrong. If there is, please don't do anything rash. There are lost of places where you can go to get help. If I am way off the mark, you have my apologies.

I have read the charter and don't see how this topic could be in contravention of the rules. If it is, I apologise to the administrators and moderators and will fully understand if my reply is removed.

Sully

Radio Mad. wrote:

I have read the charter and don't see how this topic could be in contravention of the rules. If it is, I apologise to the administrators and moderators and will fully understand if my reply is removed.

I think it may violate the "no legal advise" rule.. but, this might not be considered legal advise in that sense..

Lockstep

I'm not looking for legal advice,I'm too young to be thinking about such things but I was wondering if anyone had any experience on the matter.


Don't worry,I still intend to have a good long life,but if the worst should happen,being cremated and having half the ashes in a grave and the other half floating through the waves would be a good way to go.

Our man in Havana

Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act, 1993 Section 66 deals with burial at sea.

66.—(1) The Minister may make regulations in relation to the burial of human remains at sea.


(2) A person who contravenes any regulation under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both.

I found this Seanad debate on the subject:

Finally, the burial of human remains at sea is addressed in Part V of the Bill. Unauthorised burials at sea can pose a risk to public health or cause a navigational hazard, and can also give rise to personal distress in the event of a body being washed ashore. Accordingly, the Bill provides for an enabling power to make regulations for a suitable regime under which burials at sea may take place.

Section 66 of the Bill deals with burial at sea. This is an interesting provision. There are five or six applications annually for such burial. Unauthorised burial at sea is addressed in the Bill for the first time. Grief and concern is experienced by the relatives of persons whose bodies are buried at sea in an unauthorised or unacceptable way. The corpses of the remains become a threat or, alternatively, are washed up on the foreshore. Section 66 is being introduced to prevent this.

UrbanFox

All joking aside it is imperative that the coffin is drilled with multilple full thickness holes all over to ensure that it stays submerged and that decomposition opportunities are maximised.

The coffin should be buried well out to sea and clear of local currents and likely fishing grounds.

There was an akward case a few years ago in Dublin when the deceased and his coffin made a return visit to the nether regions of somewhere like Dollymount and there was a shedload of paperwork over it. To add insult to injury I think that the deceased was a southsider.

axer

If one goes into international waters can they ignore this Irish law regarding burial at sea?

Robbo

axer wrote:

If one goes into international waters can they ignore this Irish law regarding burial at sea?

I'd imagine you'd then have to contend with international maritime law.

Nevyn

You can have your body cremated and the ashes spread on what water.

seamus

I'm happy enough to allow this discussion on the grounds that if the OP does eventually act on the replies here, he'll be too dead to care about whether it was good advice and boards.ie will probably be something very different if it's here at all.

templetonpeck

Sully wrote:

Have you had a gander at the charter? You know, the one posters should read BEFORE posting here? :P

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054891512

Anywhome, I dont think people will advise as its not permitted. Interesting question tho.

LMAO!!! Thought it was some sort of Seafarer's Burial at Sea Charter

templetonpeck

UrbanFox wrote:

All joking aside it is imperative that the coffin is drilled with multilple full thickness holes all over to ensure that it stays submerged and that decomposition opportunities are maximised.

The coffin should be buried well out to sea and clear of local currents and likely fishing grounds.

There was an akward case a few years ago in Dublin when the deceased and his coffin made a return visit to the nether regions of somewhere like Dollymount and there was a shedload of paperwork over it. To add insult to injury I think that the deceased was a southsider.

The outrage!!!!:D Nothing worse then going to all the hassle of burying some-one at sea, only for them to float back to you and have to go through the whole process again :eek:

Victor

templetonpeck wrote:

The outrage!!!!:D Nothing worse then going to all the hassle of burying some-one at sea, only for them to float back to you and have to go through the whole process again :eek:

The idea, back it the day was to load down the body with an artillery shell.

Lockstep

Ah sure cremation will do me fine, half can be around for my family to pay respects to and the other half can tour the world.

Would this be allowed?

Our man in Havana

I couldn't see a problem with that.