GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites

Narrative Fallacy writes "Relatives and friends will use a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones in Australia's eco-burial site on bushland attached to Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery, in New South Wales. Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, the deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary. 'It's an ideal way of utilizing land and helping wildlife and vegetation,' said Kris Whitney, Lismore Council coordinator of cemeteries. 'A family can walk around the bushland and pick a site. The body can be oriented in any direction. We promise there will be no internments within five meters. We'll record accurate GPS co-ordinates.' Families visiting graves would be lent a satellite navigation device. This will be Australia's fourth 'natural burial site' with existing sites in Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia."

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Re:Way to go to make me feel like a goldfish

[JudgeFurious]

Exactly. Is it too much to ask for "the dead" to just STFU and let us get on with our ceremony?

  Honestly, I'm going the cremation route because I couldn't care less about this stuff. My wife feels the same way but my mom is just outrageous in her demands. I swear you would think the woman has a Pharoh complex or something. She's got this big plan where my brother and I have her cremated and then pour various "subsets" of her ashes into the Tennessee River, Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. This has something to do with each of the places he's lived being represented or some such conceited bullshit. She'll be dead and on top of that she won't even be a body, just a box of ashes!

  These wishes will not be honored. No chance in hell of that happening. She's getting turned into ashes and then it's all going in the Gulf. That's where the rest of it empties out anyway right? Close enough. Just imagine the price of gas as we drive all over the southern U.S. trying to do this?

  It's pure insanity. We love her but this is just over the top.