But da worms will eat into your brains... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

This most likely. Although, I do have reservations. Mainly concerning the poor bastages going to get assigned the detail. Those don't always go well. 🤦

USNGunner wrote:

You bring up an interesting point. When my Wife's Father passed he wanted his ashes to go to sea, he was a merchant marine seaman. I made the arrangements with a funeral home in Charleston, SC. Since i am pretty plain speaking the funeral director and I had a frank talk about the arrangements. In this state you do not need a casket to be cremated, however the funeral home had a charge of $75 for a pre-cremation container. He said, The container is actually optional, however it's was preferred by our staff. You can imagine when the work is stacked up and they have to load multiple bodies for processing." No problem, very reasonable.8-[

He knew we were going to return the remains to the ocean and offered to take them out in his boat, no charge, he needed another excuse to take it our anyway. When we explained we meeting some of his friends to post the remains in the ocean he gave use directions to the perfect spot, near Fort Moultree, then he gave us a warning, "You've probably never done this before, do pay attention to the wind so you don't end up with a facefull of remains."

Gene363 wrote:

Yeah. This. We had a chaplain that wouldn't listen. The family wanted the urn returned. I told the sky pilot, let's transfer the remains to another disposable container, and let that go into the wake. No. They were videoing the ceremony for the family and he wanted to sprinkle them out. "Chaplain, it's really windy out there today." He insisted.

Sure as hell, me an my guys are online to render honors, the rifle salute, and as he empties the urn as a gust of wind hits us right in the face. A massive updraft from the hull and he's covered, we're covered, one of the guys got a mouthful and is losing it.

Did I mention it was being videotaped? In living color? Not good. They wanted us to do a "do over" for video. I told them we could, but I wasn't going to feel good about it, and all our dress white uniforms were trashed.

We didn't do it so I'm not sure what they ended up doing about the video. The Skipper mentioned to me later that I should maximize those guys liberty when we got back into port, and there was no way he could send that to the bereaved. He did replace our whites for us too, he was good dude.

USNGunner wrote:

This most likely. Although, I do have reservations. Mainly concerning the poor bastages going to get assigned the detail. Those don't always go well. 🤦

USNGunner wrote:

yep...cremated and ashes scattered at some of our fave places....

I don't swim well but do enjoy fishing and relaxing at the ocean and a few lakes, so my wife and kids asked if I really wanted some ashes put into bodies of water...

delta1 wrote: