Something Squirrelly this Way Comes

Some of you will find this morbid and I'm sorry for that. I think it's pretty darn cool myself. There's a company working to provide artificial reefs. They have an environmentally friendly cement mixture that they use to form reef balls. They acquire proper permits and then place the reef balls on the ocean floor. Their goal is to repair and form coral reefs that have been destroyed by man's activities.

For the last several years they've also been adding in the cremated remains of people and pets. You have the ashes sent to them and they add them into their cement mixture. They're called Eternal Reefs and I think they're amazing. Some of you know that I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered on the ocean. I've now modified that desire. I want my ashes, along with Gallagher's, to be made into a reef ball.

Each ball has a bronze plaque in it and you're given the GPS coordinates. This way remaining friends and family can have a physical place to go visit. Scuba diving in the ocean is far better than walking through a cemetary, in my mind. Plus it's providing a habit for all manner of sea life. The reef balls will last 300 years or so but even if they disintegrate before that, so what? It would just mean that my ashes were scattered at sea.