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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
When the owner of a local 50' charter fishing boat died, his son wanted to give him a Viking funeral (in the boat) but the Coast Guard wouldn't allow it *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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 >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ >*************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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