A group of members of the Seimas proposes to allow the ashes of the cremated remains to spread in the sea and in the rivers

According to the current procedure, cremated remains are buried by placing them in a cemetery in a graveyard or in a niche in a columbarium, and the ashes can be scattered on the dispersal field of cremated remains of the cemetery.

Additionally, human remains cremated in the urn can be temporarily stored at home or in other suitable places for storage.

The Social Democrat Linas Jonauskas initiates an amendment so that the cremated remains can also be scattered no less than 5 kilometers from the coast in the Baltic Sea, rivers, except cities, residential areas, beaches.

The deputy says that people are not following the current order to carry out the will of the deceased to incinerate the cremated remains on the seashore: on the beach, in Seaside Regional Park, in its forests, in the Dutch Cap and in other places visited by people.

“As there is no possibility of disposing of the ashes of the deceased in a responsible and safe way at sea, in a river or in an undeveloped area, it allows doing so illegally in selected places. Employees and guests of the Seaside Regional Park find ashes and tokens that identify the deceased after cremation on the beaches of seaside attractions, and capsules for the remains are in the beach containers. This shows that the practice of illegally spreading ashes is spreading, ”says the explanatory memorandum of the amendment.

According to the initiator, the ash-spreading procedure will allow it to be done legally by protecting the Seaside Regional Park, public, public places, while providing an alternative to the last will of the deceased to spread his ashes in the sea, in the river when he is out from the city, town or beach.

The amendment to the law on burial of human remains was supported by parliamentarians from various factions, including Evelina Dobrovolska, Justice Minister of the Freedom Party, and others.