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Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

CrashingOut — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:19:42 EDT

I want to sue them for littering on a component of our solar system. Especially after that funeral industry video. No a-hole makes money by littering under my galactic gaze of justice. Hmmm I need the king from Katamari Damacy as an avatar now

CrashingOut

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

gibson042 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:15:51 EDT

@gibson042: Or even $12,500 (for those interested in actual numbers).

gibson042

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

gibson042 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:35:14 EDT

@kllngtme: Celestis offers that, too. Starting at $12,5010.

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Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

bbfreak — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:58:56 EDT

@Geisrud: Well, considering nobody technically owns the moon, sure! As long as you provide the transportation.

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Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Hello_Newman — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:26:53 EDT

There's better ways to spend 10 grand. I have it stipulated that my ashes will be loaded into a fire extinguisher and sprayed on all the oiled up contestants of the next Hawaiian tropics swimsuit contest after my demise. My agent is instructed to wait until the hottest part of the day to make sure they are a little sweaty for maximum cling.

Hello_Newman

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Spliner1969 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:54:41 EDT

Actually, my brother's ashes were sent into space along with James Doohan's last year by Celestis and www.memorialspaceflights.com. It was a fitting memorial for him as he always wanted to be an astronaut. Not all of their services are _that_ expensive. You are also invited to the launch, it's not a bad deal!

Spliner1969

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

skittlzncombos — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:25:04 EDT

How long till the funeral takes place on the moon, a la Futurama?

skittlzncombos

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

kpuri — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:27:23 EDT

They better be very very stringent in sterlizing whatever spacecrafts they plan to employ for the task.
My worry is nice benign bacteria and other microbes leaving with the craft from earth ... mutating into a horrific form once lashed by the UV energy available in abundance above the ozone layer and then waiting on the moon for a few decades for humans to arrive.

kpuri

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Amiash Loves You — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:12:01 EDT

@ripfire4: haha

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Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Calaverius — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:26:41 EDT

If you're interested in the subject you should watch this:

Calaverius

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

heroineworshipper — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:23:34 EDT

So do U need Chinese citizenship to be buried on their home turf?

heroineworshipper

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ANoel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:02:15 EDT

WAIT!... I'll only go IF they stick me in THIS !!

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ANoel

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ANoel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:58 EDT

This whole deal will be very addictive to many...

"Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know major toms a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low

BOWIE (who else)

ANoel

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ninjagin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:38 EDT

The odd thing is that Celestis-lauched ashes only stay in orbit for a short time before they fall back to earth. They must really be boosting their launch capability to do this.

ninjagin

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

whoareyou — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:26 EDT

Lets hope they don't use NASA aiming technology to try to hit the moon.

whoareyou

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

mfaerber — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:44:15 EDT

How much to get placed next to Bruce Willis?

mfaerber

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ripfire — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:02:07 EDT

*Beep* "One small step for man.." *Krshh* "I giant leap for the dead kind..." *Krshh* *Beep*

ripfire

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

maven2k — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:43:15 EDT

I think I'd rather go to the moon while I was alive and actually be able to enjoy it. Who cares what happens to the body when you're dead?

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Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

frigg — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:40:01 EDT

Doesn't this violate some kind of interplanetary litter law?

frigg

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Evodico — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:32:14 EDT

Wait.. who decided that the moon is UP. I thought it was all relative or something. From where I'm standing (right now) it's way down there and off to the right a bit. So which way to heaven anyway? Guess I'm not going.. didn't get the memo with directions.

Evodico

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Evangelion — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:12:30 EDT

@ripfire4: lol!

Evangelion

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

kllngtme — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:08:18 EDT

id rather just have my ashes be put in a capsule and sent into space, floating around forever. actually, personally i'd rather have my ashes be put in a coffee can like on the big lebowski and then get sent into space. hah.. that's great.

kllngtme

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ripfire — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:58:47 EDT

Doesn't matter how high you go up, you're still going to hell.

ripfire

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Anjow — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:41:22 EDT

So who decided that dead people are more important as cargo than, for example, scientific equipment that may be used for experiments to advance our knowledge, or perhaps some more safety equipment?

Anjow

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

BoinK — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:54 EDT

I want to be launched into a low decaying orbit and become a shooting star lookalike.

BoinK

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

ltcmurray — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:15:11 EDT

great, just what the moon needs...

more crappy dust.

ltcmurray

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

nincompoop — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:14:41 EDT

Great, just what we need, more crap on the moon. How exactly are your remains jettisoned without leaving more trash to accompany the lost golf balls, go-carts etc. already up there? Plain stoopid, doofus!

nincompoop

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Geisrud — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:33:21 EDT

Only if I get a guarantee that my kin will be able to visit my ashes for free.

Geisrud

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Joseph — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:28:49 EDT

I thought that was some sort of phallus space rock formation.

Joseph

Send Your Ashes to the Moon for All Eternity, for a Price

Curves — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:20:11 EDT

As this is the ONLY way that some folks will be going UP and not DOWN after death it might be worth the $10k. Angels such as myself however....will not need it. (Live right and leave the $10k for a really rocking wake.)

Curves