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

Christ Almighty!!

You're an environmental pest as well as a danger to animals!!

Showing off on social media, are we?

As previous posters have said, you don’t need to do all this showy shitty crap to remember a lost loved one. There are many lovely ways to do without making yourself a damn nuisance.

Absolute Muppet😡

Yeah, there’s an old adage which is apt here. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Your family member isn't with you when you put a balloon in the air...
Find another way to think about them- maybe a bubble machine that won't kill wildlife

We had an Irish music night and lit candles in church 🤷‍♀️

There are plenty of alternatives

You don’t care about the environment you and the living members of your family live in? There are lots of ways you can remember your loved ones without risking the lives of animals. Plant trees then you have permanent reminders of them and you’re making a positive contribution to the environment.

Could you roll their ashes into a spliff and do twos on with everyone instead?

I lost my DH a few years ago, and my mum three months ago. Both would be horrified if I did something in their name that resulted in, or even risked this. It’s unconscionable.

This is one of the thickest responses i've seen on here yet.
Methinks you are being deliberately obtuse cos your unemployed, thus bored 🙄

So in order to remember your loved ones you feel the need to risk killing a few sheep or any other creature that might happen upon the balloon litter and eat it.

Yeah, makes perfect sense!

Exactly, imagine people enjoying the shade of your loved one for hundreds of years

(which they will need because everything else will be on fire at that point)

Based on further research into @BeSunnyLemonSheep posts, I've narrowed it down to two theories:

1. They have absolutely no idea how cancerous balloon memorials are to wildlife and the environment.
2. They're one balloon sale away from Employee of the Month at The Big Balloon Warehouse.

I hope your husband is okay. My sister is suffering with her asthma (she's near me) and my poor sister-in-law is heavily pregnant and lives very close to Dovestones.
People just don't think about the impact of their actions.

Then the alternative is stop.

Was this your work? . . .

I'd turn in my grave with embarrassment if my family were thick and disrespectful enough to do this.

Do you disagree about who is coming across worse on this post?!

So you blatantly create litter, risk the lives of animals (horses, livestock and wildlife) and risk starting wildfires on a regular basis! People who do this are lacking brain cells! It should be a criminal offence and I don't understand why it isn't already.

Plant a tree?
Get a candle and light that, and look at it in front of a photo of the person.
Light a candle in whichever religious place you attend - if any.
Grow butterflies - release them.

Climb a hill, remember them at every step.
Go to their favourite restaurant
Cook their favourite food
Read their favourite book
Watch their favourite film.

Literally so so many better options, that are ACTUALLY doing something that reminds you of that person.

We need good alternatives, there aren’t.

Im sure if you put your mind to it you could think of some.

We do a balloon release on every special occasion throughout the year (birthdays, the day they died, Christmas, Halloween, summer festival etc) so our family member is always with us
How does releasing a balloon keep your dead family with you? They are dead. They dont know you've released a load if ruber into the air.
Surely a family picnic, a house party, a sponsored walk for their favourite charity, lighting candles and giving a donation has more meaning than acting like a load of dickheads who only care about themselves.

Potentially killing animals/damaging the countryside isn’t really a great way of celebrating / what about planting a tree/bush etc?

Peter Kay rips the piss out of people like this

" I saw that quaver packet wafting across the graveyard after the service and I just knew he was with us . . . he loved quavers" 😄

It all feels very performative to me - and of course looks good for social media likes. These types of things should be illegal. I lost loved ones and have easily managed to come up with ways to honour their memory that don’t inflict harm on nature and wildlife. And actually, all of my loved ones would deeply have disapproved of me doing anything harmful to anyone or anything else.

I'm so relieved that and slightly disappointed that finally someone understands that this is a total wind up, why are people feeding this 😭.
They are bored as fck and are absolutely p!ssing themselves laughing at us.

OMG you are actually serious!
I thought your first post was just sarcasm.

I am dumbfounded.

These are banned where I am for environmental and safety reasons.