The world's first underwater cemetery - BBC REEL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- The Neptune Memorial Reef, located off the coast of Key Biscayne in Florida, is the world’s first underwater cemetery. The eco-friendly memorial site is designed to look like a sunken city, modelled after the Lost City of Atlantis.
This unique artificial reef is currently the resting place for the cremated remains of more than 1,000 people. Once complete, it will house 250,000 memorial placements as well as thousands of different marine creatures across 16 acres of ocean floor.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh
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Many people have religious reasons for not being cremated and the lack of land for cemeteries means this is a very good alternative.
It's no good
I'd love to place my daddy there lost my dad to cover he n my mom wanted to b put n the ocean
We would be honored to assist in making Neptune Memorial Reef your family's place of rest.
"What a way to give back to mother earth"...
So pouring non-combustable remains into non-dissolvable cement is better for mother earth than letting your entire body be food for micro organisms?
Right? 🤦♀️
This is a really amazing idea. Love it :)
This is really a dope idea
Great idea.....👍
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Thank you.
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Yeees!
truly dehumanizing
I thought it was gonna be buried urns of ashes with info plaques or something, I NEVER would have guessed they'd mold you into a goddamn *brick* & just dump you on the ocean floor lol.
As for the name/death info written on those plaques, I'd give it a year or two maximum before it gets encrusted with barnacles or something & becomes completely unreadable (& therefore pointless)...
Aside from the "brick" that you mentioned, we also have artistic sculptues of lions, dolphin, mermaids, and other marine life! The family comes for the mixing ceremony where we carefully mix the cremation ashes into the sculpture. Then, we have a memorial service out on the water before our Marine Divers escort the sculpture to the ocean floor and secure it. The whole process is done in remembrance of the person who chose to be memorialized this way, and ultimately their choice!
Almost every day of the week there are recreational divers at the site who respectfully wipe off the Bronze name plates to see who is resting there. So you'll find that a majority of the plaques are still readable. Come diving yourself and sea how amazing! Enjoy the day :)
This is awesome!
Almost as stupid as making diamonds out of cremation ashes, but close. People are weird.
Besides the practicality, actually spreading one's ashes into the sea is much simpler and eco-friendly than coastally buried urns.
We prefer the term unique! People have been memorialized in a variety of ways such as sculpture for eons.