Posted on 09/14/2010 11:20:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
FORT LAUDERDALE — A burial in his beloved sea was the wish of Daniel Scott Lasky, who died last week at his home in Hickory, N.C.
But his family's efforts to comply with that wish led to a fisherman's startling discovery and sent homicide investigators scrambling to solve the mystery of a body at sea.
Lasky, a 48-year-old grocery worker, died of Lou Gehrig's disease on Sept. 8. The next day his family packed his body in dry ice, loaded it into a van and drove to Fort Lauderdale, where Lasky once vacationed. After stopping overnight in Daytona Beach, the family and Lasky's remains arrived in Fort Lauderdale on Friday.
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That happened to us!
We took our cousin's ashes to Scotland to sprinkle in the rose garden of our ancestral castle, as per her wishes. We did not own the castle, so we were sneaky about it. Well, a gust came up as I was about to speak, and I got little gritty bits of cousion Alda in my mouth. At least she stayed with me for another day or two!
That’s why I am donating my body to a medical school. No funeral costs other than a memorial service and they will bury me for free.
AND your ashes won’t end up in a loved one’s mouth. It’s a win - win.
Oh yeah, like they’ll be able to tell if they are MY ashes.
“Here’s ya husband Bill’s ashes”
“Hank. His name was Hank”
“Yeah, Hank. Whatevah. Just cross out Bill on da box dere”
That's how I knew they were my wife's ashes, because she'd had six screws implanted in her wrist and forearm after she had shattered them in a fall.
Better save that picture, I hear it has become quite the controversy in some circles and some “experts” claim that the powder Obama is throwing out to sea does NOT match what a humans cremated ashes are supposed to look like.
Wrong color, wrong consistency.
burial at sea coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s
Grieving isn’t an excuse for being a dumbass. They should at least be fined for all the costs involved.
I always hate when this happens.
They do have that problem in the Ganges. Apparently on-the-cheap cremations lead to many cadavers floating downstream. America is becoming a third world country before my disbelieving eyes.
LOL
It probably hasn’t been done in a long time, but they used to sew them into a weighted canvas body bag, and the lack of embalming allowed decomposition to occur naturally. By the time the bag degraded the corpse was in no condition to float.
The corpse in question was probably embalmed.
She allegedly died of cancer right after getting a hip replacement, just two days before the election.
I didn't even know they would subject a cancer patient in extremis to major elective surgery.
Silly me...
LOL
I don't remember anything about hip surgery. I think that she was suffering from cancer and that her condition was aggravated by the fact that she had broken her hip not long before her death.
I understand that some requirements are necessary but it doesn't need to be a stainless steel casket and stainless steel chains. If the body is exposed enough to the critters of the sea it is going to disappear long before plain old steel chain would.
You think there would be a sudden uptick in burials at sea if there weren't any regulations? (which I didn't suggest) Sounds ridiculous to me.
Okey dokie. /s
Just sayin’. If someone’s wishes were to be buried in your vegetable garden, and the kinfolk followed suit, you might be miffed. Sure, the tomatoes would come in nice and large, but first time the dog digs up a femur, there’d be some explaining to do.
Every Italian knows a few cement blocks can keep the body down.
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