The Trash Vortex

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Horrible.

I remember once years ago, while working in a different flower shop,
someone came in to order flowers for a burial at sea.
They wanted flowers poked into a styrofoam (a product which will be here long after you and I have shaken off this mortal coil, btw) wreath, and it takes wires and pins to do this whole project. I politely suggested other tributes for their dearly departed, but they were insistent.

So was I. There was no fookin' way I was going to make something with styro, wires, pins, possibly toxic flowers and have them toss it into the ocean, just so the shop owner could make a few bucks. She was livid.

I was fired!

Ha!

Good for you. xxxxxxxxx ;)

Hey, Red,

Bless you for your morality.

I've seen this urn in a Totnes (where all the hippys drive 4x4's.....)shop window, that's made of sea salt, and decorated in marine tones in non-threatening paint.... Apparently, it takes 20 minutes to dissolve, and floats until then......sounds like a plan.

Peace

Pilgrim

X

Good for you for sticking to your guns though; that was brave. I think a few single stems thrown into a grave after a coffin (whether that grave be in the earth or the ocean) is a much more poignant tribute. Much to much guck in the sea as it is.