re: How much red tape you think one would have to go through to have a Floating Pyre funeral?

Don't care. A "Viking Funeral" is the way to go after a raucous feast with plenty of mead and other booze...and bloody fights.

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Floating Pyre funeral

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I’ve told my wife for years this is what I want. I’ll leave the details to her.

I want 2 guys dressed as plain clothed cops in the parking lot, writing down all the license plate numbers.

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I want my corpse to be fed to lions on the African Plain.

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So you’d end up an African turd.

There is a dude in my son’s unit who is a Viking (like descendent of Vikings, religious exemption to wear a Viking beard, worships their gods, all of it) his funeral instructions are just that.

If he is KIA, you bet your arse that’s what will happen.

One of the unit guys that died on 11/11 off of Cyprus had burial at sea as his wish. He put it on there when he first finished Green Platoon as an immature joke and never updated that part of his will. They followed his wish and had his wife and children on board the ship when it happened.

Don't ask dont tell
Have an acquaintance that did it, not full pyre but he was cremated, family put him on a foam board w offshore wind. Fire lit, buddy drifts offshore and off he goes. There was some debris left from board that didn't burn. Happened on great lakes.

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Lo there do I see my father;
Lo there do I see my mother
and my sisters and my brothers;
Lo there do I see the line of my people,
back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me,
they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever.

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There should be no red tape whatsoever.