In California

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The waves were steady and high and the whaling boat took us out as we scattered mother's ashes on the deep. Do you believe in the certainty of the Resurrection? I do.

" At The Burial of the Dead at SEA" 1928 Book of Common Prayer

" Unto Almighty God we commend the soul of our sister departed Patricia, and we commit her body to the deep; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the sea shall give up her dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself."

Now those are some powerful words! I do not see any doubt here!

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