Posted on 10/14/2021 6:00:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If your final wishes are to exit this world engulfed in flames in your beloved ship, I hate to break it to you but it can't happen in Minnesota. It actually can't happen anywhere in the United States.
TikTok user @lovee.miss.lauren is a former death care worker that has since become a stay-at-home mom, sharing stories of her time in the industry and answering questions people have about the end of life process. She has made videos answering all sorts of questions like, "do you remove people's braces when they die?", "what is the cleanup process like after cremation?", and how much certain after-life methods cost.
In one of her videos that popped up on my For You Page, Lauren went into detail about Viking funerals and their legality. The video has amassed almost 20K views:
Lauren explains in the video that Viking funerals aren't allowed because when the flaming arrow is shot onto the boat or vessel, the fire doesn't get hot enough for long enough to fully cremate the body before the boat sinks. That of course opens the door for unwanted things to be floating in our bodies of water that shouldn't be.
Someone asked in the comments if it was OK to take cremated remains, put them on a tiny boat, and do a mini version of a Viking funeral that way. Lauren said that was OK and a "neat idea".
Minnesota doesn't have any regulations prohibiting the scattering of ashes on public property, including lakes. That being said, cremation professionals do suggest that you scatter ashes well away from places people will be swimming, fishing, or picnicking.
So if that die-hard Vikings fan in your life wants a Viking funeral, you might have to do some slight modifying to make it happen for them, but now you know!
Final scene and closing credits from The Vikings by Richard Fleischer (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LClTjcyNJSI
Well damn.....I was kind of banking on having one of those shortly after my 90th birthday.
Which if everything goes according to plan involves an envious romantic rival and a gunshot......
Maybe it’s the boat they object to.
“Which if everything goes according to plan involves an envious romantic rival and a gunshot......”
That’s my plan, too. When I’m 93 or so anyway.
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My pond, my boat - I can do what I want.
That’s too bad. There’s an entire football team in Minnesota that should be buried.
Land of 10,000 lakes is missing out.
Love your optimism. I envisioned something along the lines of my tatteted corpse near a pile of smoking brass and a broken blade in my hand.
More of a goal than a plan, really.
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The viking funeral is when they take the hot women from their male enemies, put the males on a ship, set it on fire, then push it out to sea.
No mention of excarnation. I’m still good to go.
When my youngest son was in his 30’s, and living closer to me, I told him that if he died, I was going to give him a Viking funeral, because there was no freaking way I was going to clean out his apartment.
We tried pretty much everything. The arrows were wrapped with cotton rope or cloth and then soaked in motor oil, vegetable oil, olive oil, turpentine, gasoline, Coleman fuel, lighter fluid, and even acetone. We had fifty-five pound draw weight re-curve bows. Always the same results.
Shooting an arrow that delivered an ember into grass or straw works if you wait patiently for the fire. It is not pretty or in any way cool.
Oh, don't go into caves with the good old Hollywood railroad flare. The sulfur dioxide fumes really spoil the adventure.
You do know why Scandinavian women are all gorgeous, don’t you? Vikings never brought the ugly ones home.
Hollywood crap
Remember the silent movie about the kkk and burning crosses?
Now think about it. If you are going to shoot a film at night, what do you need? a light source. How do you fit that in with the move? You burn some crosses.
Everyone went to the movie and learned the kkk ALWAYS burned crosses so that is what they did in real live. Didn’t happen until the movies.
So... does this mean no suttee?
I thought we were supposed to ‘’celebrate diversity’’ and ‘’all cultures were equal’’.
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