Hi Lemmy,
I’m organising a funeral, and one of the ideas that has come up is for people to write memories on a balloon and let them go. However, I’ve also heard that they often end up in trees etc and are terrible for the environment.
Is there such a thing as environmentally safe balloons? Other suggestions are also welcome.
rent a wall and provide cans of spray paint for people to leave inspiring tags.
then hire a company to clean the wall in a few days.
Alternative: plantable wildflower seed cards you can write on and then plant and grow flowers
This is a great suggestion, thank you :)
Sorry for your loss
Another thing that I’m not seeing people mention is helium balloons wandering to places like power substations and/or power lines, causing outages or even fires/explosions depending.
I liked what someone else said about writing thoughts or stories and having them read anonymously.
There’s already a couple great suggestions offered here as alternatives to the harmful balloon idea. I just want to say thank you to OP for being thoughtful enough to ask the question in the first place. The world needs more people like you.
The other comment touched on balloons so I had some other suggestions based on things that other cultures have done
Would lanterns be ok? They follow a similar principle, and they might be made of more biodegradable materials (paper lanterns).This isn’t something I’m familiar with though- There’s also the idea of setting something biodegradable ‘to sail’ on the water. Little paper boats with messages on them should be possible, and it would be easier to write something on them. You’d need a lake, and you’d need to check if the type of paper will dissolve, but it still feels better to me than balloons
Sorry for your loss
Lanterns are a plague on farmers unfortunately. We’ve picked out quite a few from hedges over the years, it’s just littering with extra steps.
