"EDMUND FITZGERALD"
A While Back....................They Found The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.....It Was Found........... Lying At The Bottom Of Lake Superior...And was Slit In Two Pieces...........Whats Bothering About This Findings Is That At One Of The Sites?There Is The Body Of One Of The Crew Lying Outside Of The Wreck Face Down On The Lakes Floor
If Not For This?...I Would Understand The Fact That They Would Leave The Ship
And Its Contents Where They Lie
But The Fact That One Of The Crew Is Outside?
Seems to Make It A Different Situation Somehow
Would It Make Sense To Recover This Body...Or For That Matter
Recover All Of Them For Proper Burial?"
For Some Reason...It Is Haunting Especially When One Body Is Outside Of The Wreck
"One Of Those Family Member Survivors Of The Deceased...(When They Saw The Footage?)
Had To Be Wondering..(."Is That Him?")
"I Think They Should...At Least.... Recover The Deceased...Outside Of The Ship.... For A Proper Burial"
Comments (13)
Very interesting news, and as you say, haunting as well.
I agree, they should give the bodies proper burial.
Burial At Sea is considered 'proper burial'...
...so it might be presumed that the remains are properly interred.
I've been involved in services such as those shown in the vid performed from a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.
Families should understand there's nothing improper or irreverent about such disposition of remains.
On the other hand, the expense could be spent on the living.
It's a difficult one, where only the relatives can decide.
How about if the cost of retrieval were to be put at the disposal of the relatives? They could then decide if they wanted their loved ones back for a land burial, or if they wanted the funds to go elsewhere. It could provide closure, either way.
We could have him privately cremated and keep his ashes (costly, almost beyond our means); or he could be cremated with all the other dogs for free and his ashes scattered on arable fields.
She opted for the mass cremation the grounds that she didn't want him to be alone.
And yet, perhaps we are all alone in death, and maybe that's not so bad. Maybe aloneness is less important when we break down and become a part of the universe once more.
"After All"
"Cemeteries Are For The Living"
"The Living Want To Place Flowers"
"And Memorials For Themselves To See".....................................
Possibly the most famous example is the US military (mostly Navy) personnel who died in Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the ships are the monuments to their death and that they should be left to rest in peace.
Just in the last few years, that view has been changed and after 75 years some of the bodies were exhumed and given burials on land.
This was of particular interest to me as my father was a US Navy officer during WWII and one of the places he served was in Pearl Harbor.
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"If You Hang Around?"
"He Will Sign Whatever You Have"
"Take A Picture With You Or Whatever"
"I Personally Have Talked With Him Back Stage"
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"Answer?"................2 Hours"................................
very much the same sort of sinking .
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"And Just Like Every Other Event That Has Happened?"
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"Was Designed To Carry 64 Passengers"
"At Least Another 30 Passengers Could Have Been Saved"
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"Hadnt Left With Just 34 People In It".......................