I can’t see anything going wrong with this in a state covered in so much forest.

Proposal would allow outdoor funeral pyres in Maine (Associated Press)

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature is considering a proposal to create a new option for sending off the dead — a flaming funeral pyre.

Anyone who has watched “Game of Thrones” or “The Phantom Menace” has seen a fictional funeral pyre, with bodies cremated outdoors on a flaming bed of timber. It’s currently legal in only two locations in the U.S. — both of them in Colorado, the Sun Journal reported.

A bill before the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee would allow a nonprofit that possesses at least 20 acres to carry out open-air cremations and to scatter the ashes on the property.

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