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.

  • pan_troglodytes@programming.devEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • jarredpickles87@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • ciapatri@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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.