{"id":756,"date":"2010-01-05T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:56:01","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-5-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 5, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Ages-Old Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The body of a man found in a fishing net off Cape Cod in November, 2007 turned out to be part of an ages-old but vanishing funeral rite: full-body burial at sea. The remains of the unidentified man had been properly disposed in March 2001, according to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O\u2019Keefe, who refused to release the man\u2019s identity. The body was pulled up in the net of an 80-foot Boston-based commercial vessel, the Guardian, at 7:15 a.m., 20 miles off Nauset Beach. The remains were handed over to the Coast Guard. The identity of the deceased man was made at the state Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Boston through markings on the body and X-ray comparisons, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. The man was one of only two people buried in full body rites at sea within the past seven years in waters off New England, according to Ann Rodney of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Boston office. The EPA regulates ocean burials, requiring that full-body services be conducted at least 3 nautical miles from shore in waters at least 600 feet deep. The corpse was in good condition, according to Walsh, with skin and face still intact. The only thing missing was a foot, he said. “I cannot believe it was in the water for six years,\u201d Walsh said. O\u2019Keefe said the circumstances of the burial were such that it is \u201cvery understandable\u201d that the body would be in good shape. He declined to disclose any more about the circumstances of the burial out of respect for the family\u2019s privacy. The EPA recommends that bodies are buried according to Navy guidelines. Navy vessels transport a veteran\u2019s body in a metal casket secured with bands, weighted with rocks or other ballast, and drilled with holes to make sure the casket sinks properly. The Navy recommends embalming a corpse before burials at sea. <\/p>\n

Culled from: CapeCodOnline.Com<\/a>
\nGenerously submitted by: Amos Quito<\/p>\n

So, what do you think the “circumstances of the burial” were that the body would be in good shape after 6 years? Was he dipped in plastic before being tossed overboard? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Ages-Old Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The body of a man found in a fishing net off Cape Cod in November, 2007 turned out to be part of an ages-old but vanishing funeral rite: full-body burial at sea. The remains of the unidentified man had been properly disposed in March 2001, according to Cape and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}