EARLIER this month Cruise Weekly covered off-the-wall funeral arrangements in the porthole column, with a Port Lincoln operator offering at-sea celebrations of life. However, the American state of Maine may be about to take end-of-life arrangements a step further, with the region’s legislature weighing up whether or not to allow...
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EARLIER this month Cruise Weekly covered off-the-wall funeral arrangements in the porthole column, with a Port Lincoln operator offering at-sea celebrations of life.
However, the American state of Maine may be about to take end-of-life arrangements a step further, with the region’s legislature weighing up whether or not to allow open-air Norse funerals, complete with a pyre.
Anyone who has watched Star Wars would be aware of the practice, which sees a typically wooden structure house a corpse which is set alight as part of a funeral rite or execution.
The bill before the state’s legislature proposes NPOs that possess at least 20 acres (8 hectares) may carry out the open-air cremations, and permission to scatter the ashes on the property.
One advocate is Good Ground, Great Beyond, which is proposing to let you burn on its pyre in its riverside acreage – not a bad way to go out.
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