Re: [Paddlewise] Where to leave my ashes

Geez, just what we need - more pollution on our inland waterways!  Anyway,
isn't is unsafe to cut out your bulkheads? ;-)

 I think spreading your ashes in the ocean would be more environmental
friendly.  Although I hear even this can backfire.  What if your relatives
get the tides wrong, and you wash up all over your family's nice shoes?

 I think I'm enjoying this topic too much!

 - Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Coplan <kcoplan_at_Genesis.law.pace.edu>
To: cramer_at_coe.uga.edu <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>; paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
<paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>; Philip Torrens <skerries_at_hotmail.com>
Cc: Robin E. Bell <robinb_at_ldeo.columbia.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 2:08 PM
Subject: [Paddlewise] Where to leave my ashes


>Philip Torrens wrote:
>
>
>> I share your desire to have a "watery grave" (again -after I'm dead). In
>> fact, if the authorites would permit it, I'd have a Viking fireship
>> cremationr, with Coleman fuel on my sea kayak.
>
>Do you think your average crematorium would let me use my strip
>built Guillemot Coastal instead of a casket?  Would save my survivors
>some dough, and I can't think of a better way to go. Just cut out the
>front bulkhead, push my legs in,  and you can leave my smiling face
> peering out of the cockpit.   Ashes to be
>spread in the Upper Hudson, of course, so me and my kayak could
>linger on the river for a long, long, time as the tidewater ebbs and
>flows.
>
>Just a thought.  Think I'll cc. this note to my SO so she'll know
>what to do.
>
>I, too, would leave the body on the Chatooga.  I have sympathy for
>the family, but a body that has been underwater for a week is not
>going to give much solace, and is not worth the risk to the people
>and the river.  Wilderness travelers must accept that there are some
>expeditions where you may have the leave the body behind; this
>includes mountain climbers, ocean crossers, and wild river crossers
>as well.
>
>
>
>Professor Karl S. Coplan
>Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc.
>78 North Broadway
>White Plains, N.Y.  10603
>kcoplan_at_genesis.law.pace.edu
>(914) 422-4343
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