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Reef balls provide living monument to ocean-loving deceased PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 15 June 2006
JACKSONVILLE, N.C.

A Georgia company is offering an unsual burial service: It mixes remains with concrete to form "reef balls," which are lowered into the ocean to help create habitats for marine life.

Eternal Reefs of Decatur is currently the only company in the country that offers a reef ball burial. The balls range in weight from four hundred to four thousand pounds, and are lowered into the ocean by crane.

It's an increasingly popular way for people to provide a living monument with the remains of loved ones who enjoyed the ocean.

At one recent service, eight people, a dog named Scruffy and a sea turtle named Dare were laid to rest beneath choppy waves off the North Carolina coast.

About fifty people rode a charter boat out to sea to watch the reef balls being placed two miles off the coast of Topsail Beach. Each one was marked with a bronze plaque to commemorate the person or animal whose remains it contained.

http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5015952&nav=8fap
 
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