Stop releasing helium balloons in memory of

[Fiis]

Plus seen weddings, gender reveals etc with this too.

Balloons do not go to heaven. They float c. 50 miles, depending on wind conditions, then pop as hit a certain height.

The balloon remains fall to earth, usually in a field. Farm animals have eaten them and reports of them dying,

If you want to remember someone, do something permanent such as planting a tree, lighting candles at home etc

How utterly selfish. I despair of the human race.

Happens all the time! Usually, imo, some teenagers has been killed in a car crash/murdered, his friends and family gather in some nearby park to let balloons off…I detest these types of ‘tributes’

You’d need a massive arsehole…

So, they have to land somewhere, but it would be unlikely to be a farm?! Why do you think that?

See this all the time!

As Judge Judy says ‘looks fade but dumb is forever’

They’re often stuck in trees, flapping about. I saw one during Covid, and it’s still there.

I agree. My SIL insists on doing it every year on my FIL’s birthday or anniversary of his death and it absolutely pisses me off no end. And makes me cringe inside out too, when she posts it all on FB.

I absolutely love her to bits (I appreciate it may not sound like it, but I do), we get on so well and agree on most things but this one thing I just cannot get on board with. And I can’t say anything because I don’t want to cause any drama or ill feeling.

This. ^ Who on earth is voting YABU?!

@Fiis YANBU absolutely. Bloody things need consigning to the history books!

Good for you for not going ahead with it. Sorry to hear about your dad.

And makes me cringe inside out too, when she posts it all on FB.

This is the other part that's irritating, the kind of people who do this always post it on social media because it's done for likes and views.

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I do remember a thing many years ago about not using Chinese lanterns, but honestly this is news to me. I obviously need to emerge from under my rock.

Seriously, stop it!!! 😂

I don't even know where to start with this post!

We have a farm that we now run as a livery yard and I often have to go and retrieve balloons or Chinese lanterns from our fields and hedges.

A local lad was killed recently and they had a mass release of balloons. What good does anyone think this does? Does watching balloons floating up into the sky really give anyone any comfort?? Or is at all just for the social media pictures…

I can’t think of anything worse than knowing my death resulted in something else dying or suffering. I don’t want balloons or fireworks.

I’m sorry to those who have lost loved ones, I hope you can find something that brings you comfort.

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There's been a balloon stuck in a tree near me for at least 20 years. It's caught in twiggy bits at the top and it's too high to reach in any way, short of hiring a cherry picker. It has slightly faded but shows no signs of disintegrating.

A horse a few miles away died a couple of years ago after trying to eat the remains of a lantern.

We have retrieved at least four balloons stuck in undergrowth this year when we have been walking locally.

People who release them are just mindless and selfish idiots.

It's also a terrible waste of helium which is needed for medical equipment. Helium balloons should be illegal, and the stockpile of helium sold back to medical establishments.

We had the exact same scenario last summer, two teenage lads (known criminals who terrorised and bullied the whole community) died after crashing their stolen bike, hundreds of balloons were released and then unbelievably they got together a load of bikes and revved them as loud as they could.

Still happens all the time . . .

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2024/08/09/balloons-let-off-into-walsall-skies-in-tribute-to-southport-stabbing-victims/

Never understood the sending of a naked flame into the big blue yonder... what could possibly go wrong.

I can assure you people are still doing it

I don’t get it at all. Someone dies and to celebrate that person/remember them after death balloons are released, they go up for a bit then crash back down to earth causing more death. Why would anyone think that’s a nice thing to do for someone?