Man's Last Wish: Turn His Ashes Into Fish Food

1. Dianne
   August 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   Good for him. Why take up space on earth when you are gone and not coming back?! My sympathy to his wife and family. I'm so glad they gave him his final wish.

2. Idil
   August 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

   But then he'll turn into crap

3. Kirkburn
   August 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

   Silly Telegraph ... it's actually "Bridgwater", no "e". I bet they thought it was a spelling error.

4. ted
   August 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

   Yuck! I'm glad I don't eat fish.

5. Carl
   August 13th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

   That's pretty awesome.

   TED: Are you kidding? If you eat any animals - or plants - you're eating the decomposed and earth-processed remains of human beings. Get over it. It's not like picking up a piranha that just ate a chunk of a fresh corpse.

6. Johnny Cat
   August 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

   He may not turn into crap. His atoms may filter into reproductive systems, or eggs, and some future fish may be born with an inborn sense to not get caught. Which would be neat, but then again some atoms from all the fish he's eaten in his life will be absorbed as well.

   Either way, graveyards are a waste of space. Donate your body to science.

7. J of The Sandhills
   August 13th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

   at least the fish near a viking funeral get a hot meal

8. ted
   August 14th, 2008 at 6:55 am

   Carl, sometimes, I actually do kid, yes.

9. gtron
   August 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am

   carl and ted: funny or not, mad cow was caused by feeding an animal a type of food it would not eat under any normal circumstance - feeding ground sheep bones and chicken feathers to a cow = bad... feeding ground human to a fish= hmmmm....
   I used to work on a fish farm, and I don't trust what they feed them - you eat farmed salmon? very fatty and little taste resemblance to the real thing.
   technically, it should be illegal for a farm that sells product to not feed the proper feed to that product (Oh, my dog loved this farm, so I'll grind him and feed him to the pony so he'll run around here forever?)- of course there was the case in B.C. where psycho killer Willie Pickton fed many lo-rate hookers to the pigs on his farm... which someone eventually ate.
   the decay cycle sped up does not sell the argument, Carl, as the normal decay of flesh takes ages longer.
   and just so dude really understands his karma, a high percentage of the feed sinks to the bottom, so some of dude's "energy" will be forever enmired in lice infested muck

10. S
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    gtron:

    You're right about animals eating ground up other animals and getting brain rot as a result. By consuming the infected tissue of a dead animal they themselves became infected. But the big difference here is that he wasn't ground up raw like a dead cow. He was cremated and the only thing left is grit and ash, and at this point his remains are probably about as hazardous as a handful of wet sand. I think that's a great way to pass on, you won't take up any space and you make some fish super happy.

    Comparing some old dude's eccentric and ultimately harmless last wish to a bunch of violently murdered women being eaten by pigs kind of makes you a butthead.

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