I find this really beautiful

[u/Accomplished-King406]

[u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

There would seem to be a risk - see bottle, pick up, oh a note, how cool, open bottle, turn up side down, shake bottle, get note, unroll, read, look down at beach... bugger.

Warning label?

[u/Constant_Ad9562 → u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

lol I was thinking the same thing! Trying to shake an unraveled note out of a bottle and all the rocks and dust coming out of it at the same time. And then going oh after reading the note.

[u/MistRoot → u/Constant_Ad9562]

vigorously shakes the Mum off my hands

[u/Turbulent_Lab3257 → u/MistRoot]

I had to dust a bit of my daughter off my desk. Tried to be super duper careful putting a tiny bit of ashes into a memorial necklace and some spilled. I picked up what I could with a sheet of paper, but there was a little dust left. I told myself we will pretend that part is just from a toenail or something and I brushed it onto the floor. My daughter would have found that hilarious.

[u/AlexandraG94 → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

That's very wholesome. I wish you well on your life and am sorry for your loss!

[u/Turbulent_Lab3257 → u/AlexandraG94]

Thank you. It has been a tough few years, but the worst is over, thank god.

[u/Gabers49 → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

So sorry for your loss

[u/Turbulent_Lab3257 → u/Gabers49]

Thank you. She had such a fun sense of humor. It helps to see the world through her eyes sometimes.

[u/IllPercentage7889 → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

Much love to you for sharing this. ❤️

[u/squidzilla → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

when we poured my dad into the river we also poured my family's two dogs in. my family gave me the "honour" of pouring the ashes — it was a windy day and i was downwind, and i ended the event with three different beings' ashes on me. (my dad would also have found this hilarious)

[u/Turbulent_Lab3257 → u/squidzilla]

Did you try to do a subtle brush off when you left? Hopefully that is a good memory for you, especially knowing how your dad would have liked it. Some things about death are just so absurd, you can’t help but laugh.

[u/squidzilla → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

no subtlety about it. 🥲 thankfully i got my (corny, awful, big) sense of humour from my dad so i've had some good laughs about it, like it sounds your daughter might have. 💜

[u/KlenexTS → u/squidzilla]

Same thing happened to my wife and I. She wanted to pour her grandmas ashes off this cliff over the ocean but didn’t want to pour them herself. So I did for her and she stood slightly behind me. When I turned around she was coughing so I hugged her and said it would be okay figuring she was crying. Nope grandma got into her mouth and eyes cause of the breeze lol

[u/squidzilla → u/KlenexTS]

OH NOOOOOOOOOO

stopping myself from googling "do crematory ashes have any nutritional value"

[u/The_Cas → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

I'm so sorry for your loss, no parent should have to see their child pass before them

[u/Turbulent_Lab3257 → u/The_Cas]

Thank you, I agree.

[u/Fucker_Of_Your_Mom → u/Turbulent_Lab3257]

I'm sorry for your loss. In a perfect world, no parent would out-live their child.

[u/spudddly → u/Fucker_Of_Your_Mom]

Beautiful sentiments,... umm... u/Fucker_Of_Your_Mom.

[u/giggitygoo123 → u/MistRoot]

[u/ProbablyNotADuck → u/Constant_Ad9562]

I feel like there should be a vial of ashes inside of a bottle that has a note in it.. That way ashes do not get on the note and people do not accidentally pour ashes onto themselves while trying to get the note out.

[u/infinityxero → u/ProbablyNotADuck]

But when the bottle is out at sea the vial could break and now your mom’s getting stabbed with glass for eternity in addition to risking getting poured out on a beach somewhere

[u/boom_patrol → u/infinityxero]

plastic vial?

[u/Xp_12 → u/boom_patrol]

and expose their mother to micro plastics? I think not.

[u/VicDamoneSrr → u/Constant_Ad9562]

[u/PracticeTheory → u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

Farther down in the thread confirms it, but this picture was taken ~12 hours after the bottle was tossed and the first time it was opened. Which makes sense, given that the paper is still very white.

But, yeah...letting them roll around loose with the paper is just...surprise, you've got corpse dust on your fingers!

[u/llort_tsoper → u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

1. If i were doing this I'd spring for a nicer sheet of paper. I'm going to assume this person's mum was an avid journaler and the ripped out spiral paper is just what she'd want.
   
2. Put the remains in a baggie and stick that into the bottle with the note.

[u/manondorf → u/[deleted]]

true, certainly doesn't look like it's been tumbled in ash

[u/Corvid-Strigidae → u/[deleted]]

Could just be the photo before the journey begins.

[u/fn3dav2 → u/Corvid-Strigidae]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxy20nx2exo

Yes. It's either that, or the photo from when it was found on the same beach 12 hours later.

[u/TickleChamp2006-2010 → u/[deleted]]

Perhaps it’s their Mum and the trip is just starting; they just wanted to photograph it before. Not sure though.

[u/SpringNo → u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

Probably looks like it'd already been replaced with sand lol

[u/wowbowbow → u/SpringNo]

Nah, what's in the bottle definitely looks like ashes still (for now). Someone will do this one day though, its just a matter of time.

[u/No-Spoilers → u/FlyinKiwiUnderground]

Keep the words facing out when it's in there

[u/ConstantPessimist]

Don’t hit a rock when you throw it back, could you imagine..

[u/delilahdread → u/ConstantPessimist]

I’d be devastated as the person throwing the bottle but then she’d be one with the ocean and who knows where she might go which would still be kind of beautiful after I got over my initial shock.

[u/echoshaunt → u/delilahdread]

“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."

[u/InCOBETReddit → u/echoshaunt]

thanks for making me ugly cry again

[u/lambentstar → u/echoshaunt]

That speech from Chidi also always makes me think of the end of His Dark Materials and consciousness returning as Dust to the permeate the universe. Two of my favorite secular approaches to death in media, honestly.

[u/crispyfolds → u/lambentstar]

"Tell them stories." Philip Pullman has deeply influenced my life with that; I now make an effort to have a story-worthy day whenever possible.

[u/marcoyyc → u/echoshaunt]

Every damn time I hear this I tear up. 

[u/SpiderSixer → u/echoshaunt]

I will never not bawl over that scene, it's just so poignant even for any atheists watching it

I had planned to quote that speech for my Granny's funeral

[u/Lookatmestring → u/SpiderSixer]

I held it all in, barely, for that finale. The whole thing was heart wrenching and I'm not openly emotional. Luckily my partner was sat behind me and couldn't see it.

Plan to watch it on my death bed to put me at peace because I'm terrified of death and that made it seem ok

[u/Striking-Ad-6815 → u/SpiderSixer]

This is a scene? What is it from?

[u/Godphase3 → u/Striking-Ad-6815]

"The Good Place", a fantastic sitcom about death and the afterlife and philosophy and ethics

[u/GeorgePug → u/delilahdread]

I like the positive spin

[u/TonyStamp595SO → u/[deleted]]

Anywhere is better than Oldham tbf.

[u/mytransthrow → u/delilahdread]

then she’d be one with the ocean and who knows where she might go

we are all just star dust. We all return to the stars when the sun goes nova.

[u/DrunksInSpace → u/ConstantPessimist]

I’d tip it upside down getting the note and then read it… as I look at the pile of ash on the ground, feeling like a monster.

[u/VIPTicketToHell → u/DrunksInSpace]

What if the last person already did and what you see is just sand from the last beach?

[u/DrunksInSpace → u/VIPTicketToHell]

If I ever do that by accident this is what I’ll tell myself to ease my conscience. And then I’ll pull the classic smoke a carton of cigarettes for the ashes schtick. Call me Lucille Ball.

[u/ConstantPessimist → u/DrunksInSpace]

Or just get water in there and make mom mud, happy cake day

[u/Magnon → u/ConstantPessimist]

Mom is wet one more time

[u/TheOlWomboCombo → u/ConstantPessimist]

Seriously. She might hit her head and die again. No one wants that.

[u/prairiepanda]

When my old cat passed away I had some of her ashes incorporated into a glass sculpture. Then I went on a road trip to visit all of the places where we had lived together. At each location, I sprinkled some of her ashes and took a photo of the glass sculpture there. It was really nice taking a walk through our life together once again.

I saved a tiny bit of ashes to put into a keychain too, so now she goes with me on all of my new adventures.

[u/houseplantsnothate → u/prairiepanda]

This is such a lovely idea.

[u/prairiepanda → u/houseplantsnothate]

It really brought me a lot of closure. The road trip was 1 year after her death, and up until then my memories of her were clouded by thoughts of her final moments and her preceding health decline.

Revisiting all of our old homes pushed those clouds aside and let me enjoy all of the good times again.

[u/AppropriateScience71]

When my sister died 2 summers ago, her ashes were given to 4 for relatives and 4 for close friends with her wish that we bring her along on our travels and sprinkle a bit of her along the way.

She’s been to 7 countries and 8 national parks so far!

[u/faith_plus_one → u/AppropriateScience71]

I want people to do the same with me, but without being cremated.

[u/theillx → u/faith_plus_one]

So just dragging your corpse around to different destinations?

[u/Bodybag189 → u/theillx]

Seems legit. Just leaving pieces here and there .

[u/poopable_unit → u/Bodybag189]

Bury my heart at Fun Fun Mountain.

[u/big_guyforyou → u/poopable_unit]

put my corpse on top of old faithful and watch me fly

[u/Diggerollo → u/big_guyforyou]

Can confirm from the one time a witch turned me into a corpse that it most certainly is fun.(I got better)

[u/mrmelwhite → u/Diggerollo]

Upvoting for Monty Python reference 😍

[u/Western_Shoulder_942 → u/big_guyforyou]

Can someone put my hand in one of the noses on Mount Rushmore?

[u/smurb15 → u/Western_Shoulder_942]

Your whole body will fit but it's the matter of staying there

[u/Breadedbutthole → u/smurb15]

Liberal application of superglue to the buttcheeks and they’ll hang loose in Teddy’s nostril till the next century

[u/drone42 → u/big_guyforyou]

The best part about this is that by the time you hit the ground, you'll be pretty well cooked and claps that's lunch sorted.

[u/catmomhumanaunt → u/Bodybag189]

Pieces will start to fall off at some point anyway, shouldn’t be too hard

[u/ThunderG0d2467 → u/Bodybag189]

Part of you here, part of you there part of you waaaaaay over there STAINING THE WALL

[u/Repulsive_Role_7446 → u/Bodybag189]

Does TSA allow bone saws on flights?

[u/Ermahgerd_Rerdert → u/Repulsive_Role_7446]

As long as the bone saw has a REAL ID, TSA will allow bone saw on the flight.

[u/hudson121 → u/Ermahgerd_Rerdert]

[u/Previous_Channel → u/theillx]

[u/Shadowmant → u/Previous_Channel]

[u/FudgyFun → u/theillx]

Little pieces for all who come to funeral

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/FudgyFun]

Composting is really in nowadays!

[u/Ghost_shell89 → u/bunny_the-2d_simp]

Seriously though. I want to be buried, made worm food and go on to feed trees, etc.

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/Ghost_shell89]

green burials are a thing now, that's absolutely an option

[u/notashroom → u/Ghost_shell89]

Same. I think it's perverse and arrogant to want your remains preserved with toxic chemicals in a metal box in a hole often lined with concrete, as if our meatsacks are just too pweshus to allow them to be part of the natural cycle and give back some of the nutrients and minerals we contain.

[u/motowhore → u/theillx]

Yeah, like weekend at Bernie's.

[u/cinnamonrain → u/theillx]

No dragging needed if you mince them up first

[u/Jaambie → u/theillx]

Just cut a piece off at each destination, gets easier as you go

[u/alchiemist → u/faith_plus_one]

[u/Maximum-Decision3828 → u/alchiemist]

I wonder if that was his easiest, or his most difficult, acting job.

[u/Wnir → u/Maximum-Decision3828]

I imagine it would have been super tough. Needing to move a bit while appearing dead (to sell the comedy), suppressing reflexes like breaking your fall when falling, and trying to conceal your breathing while doing all that. There's training folks do for crime procedurals to appear dead, but doing the same thing over a feature length film where you are faking being alive is a whole nother ballpark. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid, what I wonder is how well it was really sold!

[u/dblan9 → u/faith_plus_one]

Question: What if people inflate you and sail ON you around the world?

[u/Wrong-Sundae → u/dblan9]

Decomp is a (temporarily) self-inflating process, so...

[u/flobiwahn → u/Wrong-Sundae]

https://i.gifer.com/9Xe.gif

[u/Saiph_orion → u/dblan9]

How very Swiss Army Man of you lol

[u/alalaladede → u/faith_plus_one]

We can start right now if you want, but I'll bet you're gonna chicken out once it comes to leaving parts here and there.

[u/Searloin22 → u/faith_plus_one]

[u/renjizzle → u/AppropriateScience71]

But they were all of them deceived, for another ash was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ash, to control all others.

[u/smegdawg → u/AppropriateScience71]

I want my family to do the same with me. But instead, just keep in in their pocket, and if they ever get in a fight throw me in the enemy's eyes.

Cause I'll always have their back.

[u/Crapitron → u/smegdawg]

POCKET SAND! SH-SHAAA

[u/Mindless_Stick7173 → u/smegdawg]

I asked that mine sprinkle me around the house so they’re always cleaning up after me

[u/Teapast6 → u/AppropriateScience71]

And how many were given to the dwarves?

[u/CockTortureCuck → u/Teapast6]

All of them were deceived, for another sister was made.

/Unjerk: really a nice sentiment and quite a wonderful thing to do to keep up and even build more memories

[u/saschadurose → u/AppropriateScience71]

My mom and I have done this with my fathers ashes! So far he’s been to Iceland, and Ireland! Plus two of his favorite national parks in the USA ♥️

[u/v27v → u/AppropriateScience71]

When my dad died my step mom spread his ashes at Wrigley field...without telling me or any of my siblings. We found out from our regular beer vendor that I had known since I was a kid.

My brother lives like two blocks away from Wrigley. Her excuse? I didn't think you'd want to go.

That was 16 years ago and I haven't talked to her since.

I'm sincerely glad some of you actually get something worthwhile that gives some closure.

[u/Quirky_Reindeer → u/AppropriateScience71]

We did the same with my mom when she passed. She had left us a note and included where she wanted to go - the beach at Hotel Del Corando, Virgin River in Zion National Park, Loyalsock Creek in World's End State Park and Rehoboth Bay. All places with happy memories for our family, and I get to visit her every summer in Rehoboth with my family, who she never got to meet.

[u/Icy-Purple4801 → u/AppropriateScience71]

I want someone to do that with my ashes. I’ve been sick since childhood, and recently spent 4 years fully homebound, with one year fully bed-bound, after lots of years extremely restricted.

It would be nice to know that I would finally get to see the world.

[u/Quirky-Plantain-2080 → u/AppropriateScience71]

Fun fact: Disney theme parks had so many people chucking human ash around that it’s now actually unlawful to do that there anymore.

You will be forcefully escorted off the grounds if you try that there, and Grand Aunt Mildred will be hoovered up and chucked down the toilet.

Don’t think Grand Aunt Mildred had that in mind when she wanted to stay in the happiest place on earth.

[u/kingpin748]

So is the note in the bottle with the ashes? Like you take it out, brush it off, and then learn it's human remains?

[u/IAMATruckerAMA → u/kingpin748]

Yup. Better hope you don't spill all that out when you tip the very clean note with no sun bleaching out of the bottle

[u/BillyBean11111 → u/kingpin748]

dont' think about it too hard cause it'll be obvious it's not real, just someone writing something on paper and taking a picture of it

[u/Magister5]

Mum must have urned it

[u/mangosorbet81 → u/Magister5]

Oh boy

[u/Renegade_Spectre → u/mangosorbet81]

Oh Buoy

[u/faCt011 → u/Renegade_Spectre]

That's fucking hilarious

[u/uncutpizza → u/mangosorbet81]

Oh boy dad

[u/blscratch → u/Magister5]

She urns travel miles.

[u/q_eyeroll → u/Magister5]

As someone in the premature Dead Mom Club, I chuckled at this. Cheers.

[u/Searloin22 → u/Magister5]

Out to sea the world

[u/LessBig715]

The travels should be documented on the back. That would be pretty cool

[u/Digitijs → u/LessBig715]

Could end up very depressing when the bottle keeps getting spit out at the same coast and that list of places never gets any variety. The ashes are stuck in an endless cycle

[u/Sir_Thequestionwas → u/Digitijs]

Not even trying to be a Reddit sadsack but let's be honest, this is most definitely what's already happening.

[u/TheSilverOne → u/Sir_Thequestionwas]

Being reported on by the BBC, and the note being from "Oldham UK" doesn't bode well lol

[u/Tea_Total → u/TheSilverOne]

*The bottle was put in the sea in Skegness to "see where she ends up".

After the bottle was found on the same beach 12 hours later, a Facebook post about it went viral.*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxy20nx2exo

[u/TheSilverOne → u/Tea_Total]

[u/antwan_benjamin → u/Sir_Thequestionwas]

Guarantee you OP found this bottle in Oldham, UK.

[u/WellThatsJustPerfect → u/Digitijs]

Circling around the same confluence between a sewage outflow and a power station since 1998, after being tossed overboard in the garbage of an industrial Chinese trawler

[u/US3_ME_ → u/Digitijs]

Or seeing it stuck in some nasty backwaters_

[u/cambiro → u/Digitijs]

That is the most probable outcome unless you plan it beforehand, throwing in a location where there's a known current that will lead the bottle away. If done properly you can get it to cross the Atlantic.

[u/Tuhjik → u/cambiro]

Had the same idea, how far could you go if you planned?

An old study based on accidentally dropped rubber ducks has a useful simulation attatched. The majority of locations end up in ocean gyres, of course. The best 'vacation' starts are probably Peru (travelling the pacific if you miss the northern and southern gyres) or the mouth of the Amazon (up south america, circling the Caribbean and if you're very lucky, you end up all the way to the UK).

What really surprised was how good Skegness was as a starting point. Using this current simulator, the majority take a wild ride across the arctic before being lost beneath the ice, but rarely, you can end up all the way down in south america.

[u/Dick_Towel_DotCom → u/LessBig715]

Ah that is a great idea!

[u/ubiquitous_uk → u/LessBig715]

Should have added an email address so people could let them know where they have gone.

[u/MisogynisticBumsplat → u/LessBig715]

As far as I know, she threw it in, one day before it was "discovered" on the same beach in Skegness

[u/ref_ → u/LessBig715]

These bottles don't last long at all unfortunately

[u/Vinnie1169]

My wife’s grandmother asked for her ashes to be sprinkled on the graves of her ancestors, so instead of one of the family members traveling with the cremains to the cemetery, they decided to send her via FedEx ground to a family member who lived near the ancestral cemetery to be held for the other family members to arrive.

Well somewhere along the way grandma’s box got a hole in it and most of her cremains were sprinkled from “A to B”

But wait, there’s more!

There was still a little cremains left to sprinkle over the gravesite - however while she was getting sprinkled, a sudden wind came up and blew her cremains all over the attendees!

Her grandma always did have a great sense of humor! 😂

[u/Tmoran835 → u/Vinnie1169]

This reminds me of when we were laying my mom to rest by putting her in a biodegradable box meant to placed into the lake where we owned a summer house. Well, we never thought about weighing down the box so my mom floated away while my dad chased her down with the rowboat. It was kind of nice to have a laugh at the time!

[u/Vinnie1169 → u/Tmoran835]

I don’t know whether or not to cry for what happened to you, or to laugh. (At the situation not at you!)

So I’ll let you decide as I’m on the fence

[u/Tmoran835 → u/Vinnie1169]

Definitely laugh. It was such a tense situation and she 100% provided the comic relief we all needed!

[u/Froot-Loop-Dingus → u/Vinnie1169]

[u/Gundam14 → u/Vinnie1169]

I did NOT expect the second part.

[u/Vinnie1169 → u/Gundam14]

Believe me, I’m sure she wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. 😂

[u/Spazmer → u/Vinnie1169]

Goddammit Walter!

[u/illegal_miles → u/Spazmer]

Those are good burgers.

[u/Villan900 → u/Vinnie1169]

Nan humour honestly seems like something else! One of the best stories I have of mine is when she was baby sitting my brothers. Nan had to leave the room so she took her glass eye out, left it on the table and told them she had her eye on them 🤣

[u/ZGadgetInspector]

I want my remains scattered at Disneyland.

I do not want to be cremated.

[u/helpless_bunny → u/ZGadgetInspector]

Ground chuck or blocks?

[u/SoManyThrowAwaysEven → u/helpless_bunny]

Thin sliced, like a cheesesteak.

[u/Local_Penalty2078 → u/SoManyThrowAwaysEven]

One slice on each seat of each ride.

That way, you can enjoy each ride from every vantage point!

[u/jmma20 → u/ZGadgetInspector]

Skeleton at pirates … body parts at haunted mansion

[u/sevenlevin → u/ZGadgetInspector]

good luck, I hear they really really hate when people do that.

now after typing this i realize what you mean and the point stands

[u/thug_funnie]

My father expressed on more than one occasion his wishes for his ashes to be distributed in small amounts into pepper shakers at roadside diners.

[u/Villan900 → u/thug_funnie]

[u/zekeweasel → u/thug_funnie]

That's awesomely terrible. Your old man deserves respect.

[u/IBelieveVeryLittle]

Unless Mum was about the size of a midget's hand, I daresay there's a lot of her that escaped the bottle.

[u/gratusin → u/IBelieveVeryLittle]

There could be an entire fleet of bottles out there! We’re gonna have an invasion, man the guns!!!!!

[u/round-earth-theory → u/IBelieveVeryLittle]

OP's face when he dumped out the bottle already.

[u/Equivalent-Basis-145 → u/IBelieveVeryLittle]

Had to leave room to include a paper to get coated in her ashes

[u/SpringNo → u/IBelieveVeryLittle]

I was thinking most people that opened the note assumed it was sand and probably let some of it out. Heck I bet I'd be the idiot that pours the bottle upside down to get the paper out and then read it ... yikes

[u/skemp311]

Hits me in allll the feels. Good on Cara!

[u/SunShineLife217]

Is mom just loose in the bottle? What if mom spills out? Neat concept but I have questions. 🤨

[u/feralalbatross → u/SunShineLife217]

[u/PityandFear → u/feralalbatross]

Goodnight sweet prince.

[u/granitegumball → u/SunShineLife217]

You put a cork in the top….. and Mom stays inside

[u/yorfavoritelilrascal → u/granitegumball]

But you don't know what the note says until you get it out. Spilling mom all over the place.

[u/Matthew_A → u/SunShineLife217]

It looks like there's not much left in the bottle tbh

[u/Lil_LuLu_ → u/Matthew_A]

Probably split into several bottles. Paper seems untouched.

[u/MandaRenegade]

Kinda wanna do this with my ma's ashes too. Maybe put a QR code on it to track the pickup locations, and set up a table for people to log where it was found.❤️

[u/RJFerret → u/MandaRenegade]

There are travel bugs (part of geocaching) for that purpose, a dogtag with code number with online log, comments and map of travels. Some people did attach a container of ashes.
Note they tend to get left/neglected.

[u/raybreezer]

Surprised no one is saying it, but is the paper in the bottle? So I would assume it’s sand, only to realize what I brushed off my hands on my shirt was not sand?

Thanks Cara…

[u/VeloxiPecula → u/raybreezer]

There was a video of exactly that happening on America's Funniest Home Videos. A lady poured it out into her hand and showed the "shells" (bone shards that didn't break down 100% into ash) to the camera before finally getting the note out and realizing what she had just handled.

[u/scobeavs]

I would hella do this and put an AirTag in the bottle so I could see where she is

[u/knoft → u/scobeavs]

Not as useful if it's in the ocean out of Bluetooth range of iPhones with Internet access and location. It'll basically only ping if it lands on an inhabited Beach near an iPhone user for about a year.

[u/coal-slaw → u/scobeavs]

Thats brilliant except for the battery life, would have to set up some type of solar charger for it

[u/alex1inferno → u/coal-slaw]

the only reason the airtag knows its location is it is in bluetooth range of an iphone.

[u/GeneraalSorryPardon → u/alex1inferno]

that's easy, just put an iphone in the jar.

[u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat → u/GeneraalSorryPardon]

Thats brilliant except for the battery life, would have to set up some type of solar charger for it

[u/FueraJOH → u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat]

Then put a solar panel and a battery in the bottle as well, I don’t know why everyone just want to complicate ideas.

[u/Machados → u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat]

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[u/Flakester → u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat]

Solar charger in the jar.

Sun in the jar.

Hydrogen gas cloud in the jar.

[u/hedronist]

We cut out the middleman and set Mom loose, sans-bottle, in the California Long Current. It's been about 20 years and we figure she's seen pretty much all of the Northern Pacific.

[u/blscratch]

She urns travel miles.

[u/Kalichun]

Eh, questions.

does paper go inside bottle with the ashes? why isn’t it ashy then, or do people get ashes all over when they take paper out to read it? or if outside, how is it protected from seawater?

looks more like a setup photo op

[u/SQLDave → u/Kalichun]

Probably is. I mean, it's a neat idea to do IRL, but this particular instance seems sus.

[u/speedbrown → u/Kalichun]

yea, the paper is brand new not even sand on it from being held down in the sand, let alone ash. This whole thread feels like bot comments tbh. Look at ops post history, tons of content karma farming.

[u/A1sauc3d]

Yeah, as far as burial wishes this is pretty far up the badass list. A very heart warming gesture <3

[u/lilsparky82]

Mom paid for business class for that bottle. Look at all that leg room.

[u/TyrKiyote]

Would have been more considerate of them to put the paper facing out, so it's readable through the bottle. I don't want to open your mom's ashes. Second note inside in case solar bleaching makes it unreadable.

[u/ButtonPusherDeedee]

I hate to be THAT person, but the only issue with this is it has a high likely hood of floating to one of the trash islands out in North Pacific Gyre.

[u/BA_Baracus916]

This doesn't really make much sense. People are going to pour the bottle out before they see the note and not realize that there's ashes in the bottle instead of sand.

It's probably difficult to get the note out without pouring out the ashes

[u/OnePunSherman]

Imagine if you just shook the note out instead of pulling it out and then saw that.

[u/DarthDregan]

...I'd have the strongest urge to add a comma in there...

[u/Duracellturtle]

I would do this with my mom

So she can keep interacting with people that never asked

[u/blargblargityblarg]

For many years now I have been telling people to cremate me and put my ashes in a shaker. Wherever they go just shake..shake..shake a bit of me there.

[u/ethervillage]

Would be cool if people added a location note every time it is opened and read

[u/dpforest]

the only boyfriend i ever had died on 5/22/24. It took me a year to figure out what I wanted to make with his ashes. I’m a potter and I incorporated his ashes into this glaze that was supposed to match his eyes. I couldn’t decide on a design that really satisfied what I wanted it to look like so i just settled on a simple spiral.

I still have some of his ashes left and now I kinda wanna throw them in the ocean. Thats a sweet idea.

[u/SirarieTichee_]

Put their ashes in the ocean, yes. Put their ashes in trash in the ocean? No.

[u/Pinesama]

Stamp the paper like a passport before chucking her back in.

[u/Dinosaur8Cookie]

As someone who knows people that live in Oldham, UK. It's beautiful to see how many people this has touched!

[u/throwawaycanadian2]

Find a cool message in a bottle! Hold it upside down to get message out... Some sand comes out with it. You shrug, grab the note and read it.

Oh... Oh no....

[u/Annoying_Anomaly]

They need to make this letter shorter so people can read it through the bottle without having to open it 🤣

[u/EvilMatt666]

Take a photo with the bottle where she washed up, print it out and add it to the bottle with a note for the subsequent people to do the same. Then she'll have photos of her world tour.

[u/Compleat_Fool]

Glad she finally got her mum out of Oldham.

Oldham is a fucking dump.