Talk:Burial at sea

message: I removed this today,
:"Where the deceased's remains have been previously scattered into the sea, memorial services are often performed by returning to the location of the scattering using GPS coordinates logged at the time of the original service."
It's hard to imagine why a family (or friends, etc.) would scatter ashes at sea, presumably with a ceremony appropriate to their customs and wishes, and then return later to hold a memorial service there.  A memorial service is a service held in lieu of a burial or a second service in a different place to allow those who could not attend the primary burial service.
Also, one does not log "GPS coordinates", one logs locations, which may have been determined with a GPS, or otherwise. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:09, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memorial Service 

message: This article needs some photos of non-US burials at sea.  As it stands the four photos are all of US naval burials at sea, and they make the article very biased, towards one country and towards the non-civilian aspect of burial at sea.  It should be corrected. 86.152.240.193 (talk) 16:31, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos - bias needs removing/correcting 

message: You mentioned the addition of weight to keep the body down, but you missed a step. You need to create a vent to release the decomposition gasses. A cut acress the stomach and one on the neck. If you don't, the gasses will pull the body (with weights) back to the surface. My Dad helped bury men during WW2 and prepared bodies during 15 years in the merchant marine. Herogamer (talk) 14:36, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Step 

message: Should Cremation be added to Categories?  Tiyang (talk) 14:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I don't think Cremation related scattering should be included in "Burial at sea".  Cremation is an alternative to burial. Where you scatter the ash, IF you scatter the ash, is not a burial at sea or on land.
Having a long list of examples of people "buried at sea" that is dominated by scattered ashes is silly.  Buried at sea is having a body sunk in the ocean, not a body in a funeral home being cremated and then the ashes being carried to the water and scattered.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk) 18:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cremation? 

message: "Islamic law requires a body to be buried within 24 hours after death."
Is this accurate? There is no mention of this in the main Islamic Burial article. I was trying to see if this was just an internet meme or if there is some validity to it.
70.125.204.222 (talk) 02:33, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islamic burial timing? 

message: Article had said: "Orthodox Judaism prohibits burial at sea; Reform Judaism may allow it." The Reform statement was unsourced; the Orthodox statement pointed to Yoreh Deah 375:7. Yoreh Deah 375:7 is irrelevant; it's talking about if a living person is swept out to sea, at what point can the family assume s/he has died. Burial at sea (as I understand it) means we have a corpse here that we've verified as dead, and now we want to put it in the sea.
So we had one unsourced statement and one statement not supported by the citation; I'm taking this all out and replacing it with something more direct. TLMD13 (talk) 18:51, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judaism 

message: Are or were there any tribal peoples (presumably living on a coast) that practice burial at sea? -- 77.189.63.128 (talk) 18:32, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  tribal peoples 

message: Is this much detail on the specific legal requirements of the State of California in particular, really appropriate? 2607:FEA8:13E0:7AD:4687:FCFF:FE5C:A019 (talk) 03:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - there is far too much detail on this topic in the article.  Please edit ruthlessly!  Springnuts (talk) 19:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight 

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