PRESS INFORMATION FROM TUTILL REMEMBRANCE ITEMS




Going Down To The Sea in Ships

In spite of the Channel Tunnel, Britons remain an island race. Our history shaped by a navy tradition born in the reign of Henry the Eighth, the grit and determination of merchant mariners who kept the country fed during two world wars, and a national pastime of messing about in boats. Yet from being very much a minority option, burial at sea is becoming more popular for those who have spent their life on or around the waters that surround the British Isles.

Tutill Remembrance Items for one, report an increase in interest from funeral directors in its range of water-soluble ashes containers for this purpose, and the Chaplaincy at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth now regularly undertakes two or three committals of this kind each week for service and ex-service personnel. Around the country too, a small - but growing - number of boat charter companies are adding this special service to their mainstream operations.

Now Tutill has put together a basic factsheet on the topic for funeral directors to give to their clients either at need, or when dealing with enquiries for pre-payment plans. Susan Tutill, the company's managing director says, "A burial at sea leaves no special place for family and friends to visit should they feel the need to afterwards. It needs to be a carefully considered decision, and what our factsheet does is give the next of kin something to help remember the advice that they get from the funeral home".

"It also provides the funeral director with yet another opportunity to offer additional choice. Whether this means going on to organise the burial at sea later on, or just by suggesting a selection from our keepsake jewellery range as a way of reconciling particular family members' needs for tangible mementos of a loved one", Susan Tutill adds.

Traditional encoffined burial at sea itself is now tightly controlled, and in any case can now only take place off the Needles, south of the Isle of Wight, and between Hastings and Newhaven, on the south coast. Scattering of cremated remains or placing them in the water within a suitable casket can by contrast take place almost anywhere. Indeed, a water-soluble urn such as Tutill provide can also be used inland, on rivers, lakes or even waterways.

Copies of the  factsheet can be provided by Tutill on request, and the document is also available off the company's website for download.

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Image caption: "Water-soluble burial at sea ashes casket from Tutill Remembrance"

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Editors contact:	Ewan Scott 	Aardvark Associates tel. 01484 864 520 
(mob. 07951 963 433) or 01308 897 911
Company contact:	Tutill Remembrance Items  		tel. 01322 621100

Please note that this document is for information only and is non-contractual;
both Aardvark Associates and Tutill Remembrance Items decline all liability in the case of omissions or errors.