If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the sea can this be done? Or is it even legal?

Don_Dickle · edit-2 6 months ago

If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the sea can this be done? Or is it even legal?

@bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 6 months ago

Heavily depends on the jurisdiction that applies to you when you die. People will be better able to help you if you disclose that.

@XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

I assumed international waters. I don’t think the home jurisdiction matters

@bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 6 months ago

Even international waters (or, as I just googled, the “high seas”, as is the more appropriate term) have laws. Usually you are subject to the laws of the ship’s flag state.

@groet@feddit.org · 6 months ago

Then OP has to die in international waters. And I think ships usually count as part of the country they are registered in. So if you die on a cruise ship it still counts like dieing in that ships owner country. And its not trivial to move a corpse out of a country, there are laws about that. So the country they plan to die in very mutch matters.