On 8 Dec 2003 08:31:36 -0800, (Backyard
Renegade) wrote:

"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.

isnt it illegal to dispose of trash within the territorial waters? :-)
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On 8 Dec 2003 08:31:36 -0800, (Backyard
Renegade) wrote:

"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...

Incidentally...one of the best kept secrets around...the USCG provides
free burial at sea, as time permits for anyone...
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to see who "wf3h" is, go to "qrz.com"
and enter 'wf3h' in the field

check my blog at:
http://www.bobview.blogspot.com/

Well this is just my opinion. But if those are truly his last wishes and he
can afford to have it built. 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

What if he is cremated first...
Then take his ashes out on the viking longboat and then set it afire.

Backyard Renegade wrote in message 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

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/

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/

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/

"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

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

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