Re:Want a Viking Funeral? Only State That Allows It Is Colorado
by tdeck on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:10PM
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You're asking why there's a law against setting a boat on fire and casting it adrift on a waterway? I feel like that one speaks for itself frankly. In general most ways of burning a body on a floating boat aren't safe to other people, and there hasn't been enough demand to carve out rules for a safe way to do it.
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Re:Want a Viking Funeral? Only State That Allows It Is Colorado
by krapp on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:21PM
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If freedom of religion means people have the right to meet in close physical proximity for worship services during a pandemic then it should mean people have the right to send burning corpses down a river as a sacrament to Odin. The former is objectively a bigger threat to public safety than the latter, and I would argue the latter is better for the environment than modern Christian burial.