I will take your mother out to a nice seafood dinner, and never call her again.

I am so sorry to hear about your mother. It's a terrible thing to go through for everyone. My little sister passed away last year at 38 years old from ovarian cancer. She wanted a Viking funeral also. It is illegal, but we celebrated with a small scaled down version of a Viking funeral.

She was initially cremated, but we wanted to respect her wishes, but obviously could not do so without breaking the law. So, my father constructed a small model boat in the form of a Viking ship, it was around 20 inches long. The sail was a piece of fabric decorated with a bunch of comic character prints. (Marvel I think, she was into graphic novels and that whole scene). We added some of her cremated ashes to the bottom of the model boat. We drafted a friend with a large boat moored north of Portland, and headed to the outskirts of the islands. We had a small service for her, just close family and a couple of friends, and when it was over, we sent the model ship out to the sea, setting it on fire with her ashes in it. Being made of mostly paper, it burned very quickly and what little remained sank immediately. The boat was made of newspaper and paper mache so the remains would decompose very quickly. There was very little if any waste left behind, and what was left would have basically disintegrated rapidly.

It may not be completely legal, but it was a nice way to honor our sister with our own adaptation of what she wanted for a funeral.

Good luck to you and your family.

I think for the right price you could probably find someone with land up north that would be totally down with having a quiet ceremony for your mom. Have beers available, clear night, some music… baby, that’s a heck of a night.

I’m sure plenty of stuff in Kokadjo has happened without the sheriffs knowing.

A fun thing to do with those dudes is to get them talking about the Spartans (it's easy), and then bring up how they were enthusiastically homosexual, to say nothing of being the classical world's most notorious pederasts.

Miata struts are wicked easy. You can do them with just a basic tool set that you absolutely ought to own if you've adopted an old car. Buy everything from Harbor Freight except the jack stands. Don't get under a car without good jack stands. The only thing you need a shop for is the alignment it'll need afterwords (and technically, with enough patience, you can do that at home, too).

In general, though, we've found Duval's in SoPo to be good to us.

It's not letting me message you :/

Also thankful to live here. I have friends in Cali. Sounds like an entire different country to me.

It's the dumb guy version of stoicism. The kind that macho dudes love, but they conveniently ignore the parts about virtue and civil obligations.

What a trip. Unhinged sock puppets that are befuddled by hyperbole and generalizations.

Me too!

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What is your area and I can check at work tomorrow? There's one we've worked with a few times, but I just cannot think of the name at the moment.

PS- As someone that is mindful of the environment, I thank you for your interest in green burials.

Shout-out to the people downvoting this, lol.

I'm rooting for natural organic reduction to pass

> There's green burials, but not many cemeteries that honor that faithfully.

As someone who is planning on a green burial, can you name any cemeteries in Maine who are doing it right? I was looking at Baldwin Hill in Fayette.

More like ... Our staff are easy people to take out grief and frustrations on. We're trained to deal with grief and we're strangers, so some people can act out more than others. And some are just jerks and it's more evident when they're grieving. We're not your enemy and are actually trying to help you.

No worries.

As far as I am aware, there is nothing in Maine that allows for this. Methods of disposition are cremation, burial with or without embalming, or donation to science. I'm not even sure where something like this would be set up. You wouldn't want this in your yard - decomposing bodies are nasty things.

Nice

It never really occurred to me for some reason that people planning a funeral might be pissy toward the funeral director

Sorry, I should have provided a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

The guy you're replying to also has Ram Das on the mind.

I'm not familiar with this. Sky funeral?

It's very possible I do. :) Feel free to PM me if you wish. ;-)

We try. I'm not a director, I'm in the office, so I'm first line when someone calls us. I put up with a LOT of crap sometimes, but try to be patient because the people I'm dealing with have just had their world rocked and are trying their best to cope. Some people do it better than others.

Thanks for beating me to it! :) We need more alternatives, especially as green burials gain in popularity.

I appreciate this. I understand it's an industry that is both not understood and necessary and a lot of people are pissy because they can't just open up a hole and drop Grampa in it. There's policies and procedures and due process to this whether people like it or not.