My educated guess is that once someone had passed, and the boat was more than half a day out from base, then the body would be buried at sea. Reason being, that a body starts decomposing once life functions stop. The vapors (yes there are vapors) are threats to health. A u-boat did not have much in the way of refrigerating units, certainly not big enough to store the deceased.
Now for some here that really ripped into the OP. He has a valid point. People did die on these boats, either from enemy action, or disease. IT HAPPENED.
The reference to the blood and gore of shooting up life boats was just mean. Though perhaps that should be implemented, and there being a HIGH probability of the crew turning in such a monster (which the Germans did do to such commanders). And your captian getting hung or shot.
In sh4 there was no burial at sea option, and I one time had to cruise with 5 dead crew members (killed by that god awful stupid bug where crew stayed on the bridge, even though the boat was under water, and a bomb went off killing all the bridge crew.) I felt that was just so unrealistic. I could not burry them.
Putting them in a torpedo tube I would think would be a very bad idea I would think. Unless the idea was to eject them out into the water.
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