Ashes To Ashes and Dust to a Coral Reef? Modern Disposition of Remains

Six feet under? To the moon? Food for the fishes? Future options seem endless when it comes to disposing of one’s remains, and even today there is a cottage industry affording a plethora of options. The business of death is good business, and disposition of remains can be surprisingly expensive.
In this article originally published in Estate Planning, a Thomson Reuters publication and reprinted with permission, Alyx Durachta and Lauren Wolven explain the evolution of post-death rituals and what it means from an estate planning perspective.