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Los Angeles Times
Lifestyle
Deborah Netburn

Yes, anybody can be buried at sea. Why people pick the ocean as their final resting place

LOS ANGELES -- Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean.

Lots of people want their cremated remains scattered in the sea, but that's not what Woodburn, a fun-loving commercial artist, had in mind.

"She said, 'My whole body in there. Just throw me in the ocean. That's what I want,'" said her daughter, Teresa Stremcha.

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