Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Speaking of starting flame wars ...

["Steven Mills" <barycenter@earthlink.net>]

Interesting...how about outside the 200 mile territorial
limit?


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From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Speaking of starting flame wars ...


> Hmmmm.  What are the legalities of a burial at sea?  I know the mafia
> had no problem doing it, but what about us regular guys?
> Carl
> 
> 
> Steven Mills wrote:
> > 
> > >From: Pierre Poulin <pipo305@hotmail.com>
> > >
> > > You guys are so stange...
> > >
> > 
> > Okay, you want strange. Here's a question.
> > 
> > Does anyone know or have heard of a person being buried
> > in a submersible or sub shaped coffin [ at sea or in the ground].
> > after their demise?
> > 
> > [ and note, I am not counting the brave souls who lost their lives
> > at sea in a sub..."iron coffins"..., regardless of nationality and
> > regardless of times of war or peace ].
> > 
> > I ask this because last year I had to make funereal arrangements
> > for a close relative and among the arrangements was following
> > instructions as to the characteristics of the burial.  Also, in conferring
> > with a close relative, I was shocked to find out that I had funereal
> > insurance coverage on me since I was 16.  So, I asked myself the
> > macabre question, "How do I want to be buried?" Quietly or with
> > some "character" and "fanfare"?  How about a facsimle of Lake's
> > Argonaut Jr.?  Or the Nautilus?
> > Crush depth would be inconsequentual. It could be a wetsub?
> > 
> > It's not unheard of for people to be buried with a theme or characteristic
> > in mind.  The pyramids are an example.  I believe or it's rumored that
> > Liberace was buried in a piano shaped coffin.  Sir Richard Burton
> > [ the explorer, not the actor ] and his wife are entombed in a pyramid
> > structure. I have heard of persons buried in their favorite car.
> > 
> > So how about it guys?  Too strange and bizarre for commentary?
> > The grim reaper has everyone's name carved on that scythe's shaft!
> > 
> > If I ever build a pSub, it just could be a coffin shaped as one...a last
> > testament from a "Submadman".
> > 
> > --Steve
> 
> -- 
> "Indeed, desire is the seed of thought, the prime force that activates
> the mechanism of the mind." -- Kama Sutra