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To: NicknamedBob
LOL, I don't think our former priest would agree with you. But our Book of Common Prayer has services for all three (though the last is a special prayer):

At the Burial of the Dead at Sea.

¶ The same office may be used; but instead of the Sentence of Committal, the Minister shall say,

UNTO Almighty God we commend the soul of our brother departed, and we commit his body to the deep; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the sea shall give up her dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.



1,054 posted on 08/22/2009 5:47:19 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: sionnsar

In the days of “wooden ships and iron men”, the sailors slept in canvas (what else?), hammmocks slung belowdecks wherever there was (almost) room.

Should a man die, and need to be buried at sea, his former bunk became his (canvas) shroud.

Very efficient.


1,055 posted on 08/22/2009 6:08:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Oh well. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm up to my elbows in forearms.)
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