Ashes to ashes, dust to… space
by matt @ 1:30 pm. Blogged under Living and Dying
Listening to the radio recently I heard about the growing demand for ‘cremation scattering services’, specifically, putting the ashes of the deceased into a bunch of fireworks so that friends and relatives can send them up to the heavens and watch them go up in a puff of smoke… one final bang. Having looked into it further, I discovered that not only can human ashes be put into your average display fireworks, they can even be sent into outer space on board real rockets carrying satellites. It doesn’t end there - lost your pet dog to old age recently?
Yes you better believe it - your dog can join his 1957 idol ‘Laika’ by leaving the atmosphere for the cosmos - albeit in cremated form. But that may not be all that different from Laika anyway,the Russians admitted Laika (originally a stray, caught roaming Moscow’s streets) died within hours of entering space from excessive heat exposure. Those mean Soviets lied about her being alive for five days, what a waste of Pedigree Chum.
If you’d like to find out about sending your (or your pet’s) ashes into space just visit Space Services Inc and request the free DVD by entering ‘DVD’ in the comments section. Or if that’s a bit too geeky for you - perhaps just settle for the more normal ashes exploding in your back garden option.
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July 11th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
We need that carbon, it’s a required ingredient for new terestrial life-forms!