10-07-2004, 21:11
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Space funerals
A US company offers people to send some of there loved ones ashes into space so they can circle the earth!!
what in the world is this abt!?!??!? crazy bloody crazy!!
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...3§ion=news
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10-07-2004, 22:03
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Re: Space funerals
Why is it crazy 
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10-07-2004, 22:58
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Re: Space funerals
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Why is it crazy |
Exactly  I could think of worse places to be 'buried' just think of all the NTHW data you could take in your 'coffin' to show how normal we are   
EDIT :no links to any posts cos your all as mad as each other 
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10-07-2004, 23:02
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Re: Space funerals
There was one company (didnt check the link BTW) talking about doing it so that you would be placed in orbit, and over time your orbit would decay - then eventually you would burn up as you re-enter the atmosphere - but effectively you would got out as a shooting star and your ashes will be spread across the entire earth.
Can think of worse ways to go.
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11-07-2004, 10:49
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Re: Space funerals
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Originally Posted by Pem
Why is it crazy |
so paying $1,000 for a gram of ashes to be put into orbit is normal is it?!? 
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11-07-2004, 13:03
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Re: Space funerals
Gene Roddenberry was 'buried' that way.
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11-07-2004, 13:12
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Re: Space funerals
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so paying $1,000 for a gram of ashes to be put into orbit is normal is it?!? |
You can easily pay more than that throwing a body in a hole in the ground. Is it "normal" for a "normal" funeral to cost such an excessive amount?
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11-07-2004, 13:41
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Re: Space funerals
That is SOO cool
*breaks into a verse of 'fly me to the moon* then finishes by playing the 'blue danube waltz' 
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11-07-2004, 13:55
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Re: Space funerals
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so paying $1,000 for a gram of ashes to be put into orbit is normal is it?!? |
Most funerals cost more than that these days.
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