‘It’s gritty and it’s real’: finding a proper resting place for Australia’s unclaimed funeral ashes

The not-for-profit Sustainable Funerals Group honours the passing of people with forgotten ashes by sending them out to sea

From the deck of a 27-metre sailboat bobbing in Port Phillip Bay, Kieran Worthington takes in the distant view of Melbourne’s skyline. The sun beats down, birds fly overhead.

Then Worthington takes off his suit jacket and starts tipping people’s remains overboard.

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