AIBU to object to balloon and lantern memorial releases for environmental reasons ?

I do it and still will, no one can tell me otherwise mehhh.

I know, I've been following it closely and it's shocking - not only was the woman responsible a mother but also worked in a nursery school.
The girlfriend of the man who died in the lake has posted on social media that she will relight the moorland fires - seriously hoping she gets dragged in over that post.
The total lack of remorse is more shocking and a total smack in the face for those who have memorial trees up there and a lady who was hiking up there and walked literally into the wildfire as she rounded a bend, had filmed it and has sent it to the police and she has admitted that it was terrifying and she was just glad that she'd not taken her dogs up there.
It just shows how reckless these idiots are.

FFS! The alternative is mourning a loved one WITHOUT releasing balloons or little fire bombs. Quite easy really.

And this highlights some idiots will always be idiots

I think I voted you are being unreasonable by mistake!!! You are definitely NOT being unreasonable. My daughters primary planned a balloon release for some celebration (can't remember what) and a few of us parents complained citing the environmental impact, littering and harm to wildlife. The school said it was fine because the balloons were biodegradable. We pointed out that these biodegradable balloons actually took years to degrade and didn't solve our concerns. They gave up the idea and got the kids to make and fly kites instead. People power.

I didn't realise, we did the caterpillar to butterfly kit during lockdown. Our infant school also does it every year.

I have Facebook but that link doesn't work for me.

Yes, I remember those so-called "balloon races" that used to to be popular at school fetes and village carnivals and shows. I think they started to die out about 25 years ago, when people began to be more aware of the environmental impact.

At school in the late 1980s we did a balloon release to see how far around the world they would travel. I cringe looking back on it now!

Balloon releases have no environmental benefits whatsoever, and cause plenty of environmental harm - I don’t understand why people want to associate the memory of their loved one with litter and dead animals.

Doing something like planting a tree firstly gives you somewhere you can go to remember your loved one whenever you want, and it benefits the environment too - who wouldn’t want their loved one’s memory to carry on doing good in the world?

I've just seen this on Facebook. Very pertinent to this thread. It's only a short clip and balloons are mentioned at the end.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CmgjDsePb/

You don't need them. Managed for centuries without them. They are totally naff and disrespectful to the dead person to kill a few more living creatures because someone needs tk be the main character.

If someone kills wildlife vecause I've died I'll come back and haunt them.

It's always the live laugh fly high with the angles splar lights crowd. Tacky as all hell.

@BeSunnyLemonSheep "They are with us in our thoughts and memories.
That is my priority. I do not care about “the environment”.

You don't care if animals die a slow, agonising death? I guess the people you're remembering didn't give a flying fuck if animals choked to death either so I guess it's a fitting memorial for them.

Wild animals do choke to death on litter that has been chucked out a window though. Pets as well

At the minute lanterns could cause fires that can endanger life.

I'm willing to bet everything that you are an attention seeking chav.

You need the recognition that something sad happened to you. It's not about remembering them it's about being performative. The show, the sympathy, the attention.

Have a little gathering at your house, plant a tree, have a bit of class and do something quietly that doesn't kill animal and litter the environment.

I am astounded that anyone would choose to cause harm intentionally.

There are loads at the moment school holidays but despite being reported, they are still up, even though they are super obvious 🙄 traffic is traffic I suppose.

Just a stupid troll. She's been reported anyway.

Or think at all.🤯

Are you just being deliberately goady or are you really monumentally thick and selfish and unable to think critically?

I have too and I agree, she is ridiculous and needs to be banned.

Let's set off naked flames into the sky
Where they end up nobody knows
What a stupid thing to do in the first place
Performative shite for SM..oh look how much we care..spare me🤮🤮

You take a rotting decaying corpse with you when you release your balloons? Can’t imagine the smell would be nice.

Being kind, no matter what weak-minded mawkish drivel you dress it up with it's just littering, and people who litter are morons.

Do Balloon release people think the balloons make someone less dead?

Just glad that clown from Dovestone has been remanded in custody .. and has plenty of time for self-reflection during her prison sentence.

The one that drown was launching himself into the reservoir on an air-bed, his performative (all posted on social media of course) friends have now done untold damage to the Moors, the wildlife, and cost millions

pricks