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Boat-Hearses
Backyard Renegade wrote:
I have a friend who is trying to commission me to build him a small viking type ship, maybe 20 feet... Only problem is he also wants me to put him in it and send it to sea on fire upon his death. I did not mind so much when he asked me to do it, but when I finally realized he is serious, I kind of got freaked out. Still don't know if I am gonna build that one, probably not. Scotty If that's his wishes, and he pays up front or is a good friend, I would have no compunction. He should probably be cremated first to satisfy local regs, and the boat should be created to burn as completely as possible, but I can't think of a better way to go. When I'm no longer interested in this body, any usable parts can be used by the needy, Science can have it to figure out how I survived that long, then burn the rest and put it in some water. The Virgin Islands are my first choice, Chesapeake second, but the creek that starts in my back yard is sufficient. I've enjoyed the body for more than a half century, but when I'm done with it, I'm done. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
Boat-Hearses
"Greg Boyles" wrote in message news:N93Bb.336269$9E1.1644441@attbi_s52...
Well this is just my opinion. But if those are truly his last wishes and he can afford to have it built. Yeah, that's the problem. He has owed me 50 bucks for almost a year now and he is still alive. I am sure it would be almost impossible to get him to pay me after he is dead and burned! ;) AND he can do that legally. I mean really its no different than a burial at sea. Anyway just my opinion. My self, the reason I want one if I just like to collect weird stuff. "Backyard Renegade" wrote in message om... "Greg Boyles" wrote in message news:5VLAb.51952$_M.239766@attbi_s54... Does anyone out there know anything about Boat-Hearses and where one might obtain one? I have included a link to the one and only photo I was able to find. http://www.mit.edu/people/dheimbur/p...-Images/41.jpg I have a friend who is trying to commission me to build him a small viking type ship, maybe 20 feet... Only problem is he also wants me to put him in it and send it to sea on fire upon his death. I did not mind so much when he asked me to do it, but when I finally realized he is serious, I kind of got freaked out. Still don't know if I am gonna build that one, probably not. Scotty |
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Good point.. But a boat like that might be great for your examples of things
you have made. "Backyard Renegade" wrote in message m... "Greg Boyles" wrote in message news:N93Bb.336269$9E1.1644441@attbi_s52... Well this is just my opinion. But if those are truly his last wishes and he can afford to have it built. Yeah, that's the problem. He has owed me 50 bucks for almost a year now and he is still alive. I am sure it would be almost impossible to get him to pay me after he is dead and burned! ;) AND he can do that legally. I mean really its no different than a burial at sea. Anyway just my opinion. My self, the reason I want one if I just like to collect weird stuff. "Backyard Renegade" wrote in message om... "Greg Boyles" wrote in message news:5VLAb.51952$_M.239766@attbi_s54... Does anyone out there know anything about Boat-Hearses and where one might obtain one? I have included a link to the one and only photo I was able to find. http://www.mit.edu/people/dheimbur/p...-Images/41.jpg I have a friend who is trying to commission me to build him a small viking type ship, maybe 20 feet... Only problem is he also wants me to put him in it and send it to sea on fire upon his death. I did not mind so much when he asked me to do it, but when I finally realized he is serious, I kind of got freaked out. Still don't know if I am gonna build that one, probably not. Scotty |
Boat-Hearses
Great way to look at it.
"Jere Lull" wrote in message ... Backyard Renegade wrote: I have a friend who is trying to commission me to build him a small viking type ship, maybe 20 feet... Only problem is he also wants me to put him in it and send it to sea on fire upon his death. I did not mind so much when he asked me to do it, but when I finally realized he is serious, I kind of got freaked out. Still don't know if I am gonna build that one, probably not. Scotty If that's his wishes, and he pays up front or is a good friend, I would have no compunction. He should probably be cremated first to satisfy local regs, and the boat should be created to burn as completely as possible, but I can't think of a better way to go. When I'm no longer interested in this body, any usable parts can be used by the needy, Science can have it to figure out how I survived that long, then burn the rest and put it in some water. The Virgin Islands are my first choice, Chesapeake second, but the creek that starts in my back yard is sufficient. I've enjoyed the body for more than a half century, but when I'm done with it, I'm done. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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"Jere Lull" wrote in message
... When I'm no longer interested in this body, any usable parts can be used by the needy, Science can have it to figure out how I survived that long, then burn the rest and put it in some water. The Virgin Islands are my first choice, Chesapeake second, but the creek that starts in my back yard is sufficient. I've enjoyed the body for more than a half century, but when I'm done with it, I'm done. Amen :{)) I'm expecting I'd go first, as I'm older, but in either event, we're planning to video the approaching demise, having the prospective deceased detail current reality and expected outcome, along with detailing the desire of the end result ... .... which will be that the remains are rolled under the lifeline while under way, because it will stink too badly before you get back to shore, also video'd, so that the survivor doesn't get hauled up on murder charges :{)) Of course, with our luck, we'd be ashore while stricken, and couldn't do that - but then we *could* do the donor part. I'm of like mind, wanting all the used parts which still work to be harvested, then the remainder to get cut on by students, and, ideally, the rest made into dog and cat food, but I know that won't happen due to current sensibilities :{)) So, a nice bonfire still has some appeal! L8R Skip and Lydia, getting closer (post to follow soon) -- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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x-no-archive:yes "Skip Gundlach"
wrote: "Jere Lull" wrote in message ... When I'm no longer interested in this body, any usable parts can be used by the needy, Science can have it to figure out how I survived that long, then burn the rest and put it in some water. The Virgin Islands are my first choice, Chesapeake second, but the creek that starts in my back yard is sufficient. I've enjoyed the body for more than a half century, but when I'm done with it, I'm done. Amen :{)) I'm expecting I'd go first, as I'm older, but in either event, we're planning to video the approaching demise, having the prospective deceased detail current reality and expected outcome, along with detailing the desire of the end result ... ... which will be that the remains are rolled under the lifeline while under way, because it will stink too badly before you get back to shore, also video'd, so that the survivor doesn't get hauled up on murder charges :{)) Of course, with our luck, we'd be ashore while stricken, and couldn't do that - but then we *could* do the donor part. I'm of like mind, wanting all the used parts which still work to be harvested, then the remainder to get cut on by students, and, ideally, the rest made into dog and cat food, but I know that won't happen due to current sensibilities :{)) So, a nice bonfire still has some appeal! I don't think you can both donate body parts AND be used by students as a cadaver. Typically (at least this was the way they did it when my dad was a prof of anatomy at Un of MD Med School) they assign 2 to 4 students to one body (one student or one team per side), and they want all the legs, arms, eyes, lungs, livers etc. there for the students to see in situ so to speak. They don't want someone who's too fat or too tall to fit on the table either. Ideally you make out and sign a document so that the arrangements are made in advance. Especially, you don't want to be embalmed by a funeral home because that will make you unusable by a medical school (the funeral homes do it differently). You also can't have been autopsied because they cut you up and destroy all the vessel connections. grandma Rosalie |
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