sea burial
Nautical funeral practice
Sea burial is the disposal of a body or cremated remains at sea.
Traditional sea burials involve committing a weighted body to the ocean, once common for sailors who died during voyages.
Modern sea burials more often scatter ashes over water: She requested a sea burial off the coast where she'd spent her summers.
- oceanMassive saltwater body
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- scatteringDistribution in many directions
- wavesTraveling energy disturbances
- maritimeOf the sea
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- funeral customsfuneral, cremation, funeral procession, casket, mourning
- funeralsfuneral, cremation, casket, coffin, funeral homes
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- burialcremation, interment, grave, entombment, inhumation
- death ritesfuneral, cremation, wake, home funeral, interment
- naval traditionscrossing the line, ringing bells, watches, ship christening, ship's bell
burial location/medium
sea burialearth burial
Interring remains underground
sky burial · cremation · burial vault · pyre · incineration
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