Need a place to put your dead mother? How about the Neptune Memorial Reef, which opened last fall 45 feet deep and 3 1/4 miles off Key Biscayne. So far the undersea graveyard is designed to hold 850 souls. Someday, they hope it will be large enough to accommodate 125,000 souls over 16 acres--which still wouldn't be big enough to store the victims of the Myanmar Typhoon.

The way it works is that a dead person's ashes are mixed with pH balanced cement and made into a sculpture or a stone that is secured into the reef. Then a copper and bronze plaque is installed for name, date of birth and death, and epitaph. It is designed as underwater sculpture garden for certified divers to visit their dead relatives in especially themed areas for people who enjoyed certain activities in life, like dancing or sports. The reefy graveyard is designed to last forever and is engineered to withstand hurricanes.

Interment starts at just $995 and if you want Mom cemented in the jaws of the undersea Lion forever it will cost you $6,495. That is actually a pretty cheap price to pay to dispose of a body.

Interested? Go here--Neptune Memorial Reef.

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Is an undersea afterlife adventure not your style. You can always opt for the Shark coffin:

Thanks to English Man Dan for the post idea.

Happy Mother's Day!

--Sharky

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