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Shark chum sea burial, legal? If a man who loves shark fishing decided to be chopped up into chum, post mortem, and used as shark bait by?

his friends and family, would he, legally, be allowed to?

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  • 1 month ago

    No , firstly it is exceedingly difficuld to get permits for an intact body to be buried at sea . It would also be considered mutilation of a corpse as well as improper disposal  .

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    One burials at sea are strictly governed.

    You can only bury at sea in specially designated areas.

    All though war survivors of sunken wartime ships can have their ashes dropped to land on or very near the ship that they served on so they are buried with their former comrades.

    But shark chum NEVER as this would be a good way of disposing of Murder Victims!

     

  • glcang
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    Many Buddhists practice what is called “sky burial’. The body is dismembered and left on a high perch for birds and other wild animals to devour. Seems to me you could make a case for ‘sea burial.....

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 year ago

    Ask a mortician. Caitlain Doughty will answer those questions.  She is awsome!

    https://youtu.be/7uFiHi7QKCs

  • 1 year ago

    Probably not. If it got out that you did that some people would shriek about the possibility of a piece of someone's Uncle Fred washing up on a beach somewhere.

    But beyond that, all that would happen is the chunks would mostly sink to the bottom and get eaten by crabs and worms. Sharks are not into eating dead mammalian meat. They eat live fish for the most part. The big sharks that eat seals and the like attack them when they're alive.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    If you go far enough out past the legal limit you can do pretty much anything you want to do you should call in a burial at Sea but you definitely don't want to tell everybody that you're having yourself chopped up is shark bait. I don't think that would pass the law because it would technically be considered desecration of a corpse. So if you want to be shark bait take it out 6 miles don't tell nobody and get the deed done and then just call burial at Sea

  • 1 year ago

    i dont think so

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    You could scatter his ashes but not body parts.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    i dont think so

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