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Where will your remains rest?
"...ASHES SCATTERED IN THE STRATOSPHERE: In August 2016, geologist Lee Allison, the director of the Arizona Geological Survey, passed away. On Dec. 31, 2017, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus flew his ashes to the stratosphere using a robotic ash scatterer. The space weather balloon flight, which also gathered data on atmospheric radiation, was sponsored by Lee's wife Ann Becker to honor Lee and mark the sky-high impact he had on colleagues, students, friends and family...."
You don't need the government to get ashes into space, low space, but space.
Site http://earthtosky.net/
$500 to sponsor a flight.
Something to think about.
I'm going to get Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George to scatter mine.
I am a few breaths away from burning and flushing.:D
rsdengler
01-15-2018, 10:41
LOL...As long as no one uses mine as Kitty Litter....:p
I would like for someone drop my ashes from a Cessna with the rest of my fathers over the mountains....:D
Team Sergeant
01-15-2018, 10:43
I am a few breaths away from burning and flushing.:D
Ditto....... burn and flush.
Unless there is a way to trigger some snowflakes with my final act........:munchin
About 50 yards from my front door, in fact I am rehabbing the cemetery so it will be up to my strict standards.:D
We've got 5 detached acres that we have no use for so we've considered making it a family cemetery. My wife's parents' ashes are in a closet at her brother's house and we have a couple of dogs' ashes in a closet here.
Made into women bicycle seats...
I want a slice of my living/frozen genetic material launched into deep space.
Preferably several slices in different directions.
Maybe upload my brain map into the cloud. An evil Terminator-like AI might not be so bad if it were me, I promise.
The other 99.99% turned to ash and used as a communal ashtray for my extended Irish wake.
bowhunter
01-15-2018, 18:46
I would like to be mounted, by a skilled taxidermist. The foam should, accurately, represent the superior genetics, of, this fine speciman. It should have movable joints, clothes should be changed with the seasons, and at all times there shall be a cool pop in hand. I'd like to be in a glass box. Who knows, maybe I'll record some phrases, that could respond to motion and play over a speaker. Similar to the singing fish and deer.
I may just purchase some property, for display, near a prominent university. That way, I can continue pissing snowflakes off, and continue stealing the love of their ol'ladies
The Reaper
01-15-2018, 19:22
I would like to be mounted, by a skilled taxidermist.
Aren'y you concerned that might hurt?
Even if he is skilled?
TR
bowhunter
01-15-2018, 19:58
Aren'y you concerned that might hurt?
Even if he is skilled?
TR
Haha.... Only, if it was rushed!
Definitely, brought it upon myself. The articulation of my post definitely invited, such. I've always sucked at that. Couldn't think of a way to put it out there, that covered all fields of fire. Not that I ever intented or had the desire, but this is one of many reasons; I would never have been or be a successful officer, in today's environent.
Ret10Echo
01-15-2018, 20:07
I'll get The Dude and Walter Sobchak to oversee the process for me....
mojaveman
01-15-2018, 21:34
Made into women bicycle seats...
Original Guy. :D
I live just a few miles down the road from the Riverside National Cemetery. ;)
Cremated. Ashes divided up into 4 equal parts and dumped by low flying airplane over the four preserves I helped create in the township I live in. The deer hunting group I started to manage the preserves can handle the affair.
CDRODA396
01-16-2018, 17:42
I cant believe no one in here wants to be cremated and have their ashes join Ed Brodie on Luzon Drop Zone, Pineland.
I'm all in for cremation and burial in the clear blue water of the Keys.
In all seriousness, a recent friend's burial at ANC and my eldest brother's enlightened remark, changed my "don't care, paper box, throw me into the wind," attitude.
Most of us here have buried a few friends who paid the full price of admission, we honored them by dedicating "Sacred Ground", Arlington and our National Veterans Cemeteries, for their interment, laid to rest there, peacefully, we closed the chapter and moved on. As Irwin Shaw remarked in his heartfelt post WWI play Bury the Dead:" there is no room in this world for dead men, they must be buried and forgotten", and rightfully so, but with reminder of the cost of freedom, which "Sacred Ground" thoroughly represents.
Having Honorably Served, Washington Crossing National Cemetery, will be my last stop, in the same ground as my Brother by birth, his wife, and those who held the same belief in our Nation, to have earned admission.
To go quietly into that good night was the anti thesis of Dylan Thomas, anonymity is rejected here. To lay in the wind, to be scattered among the debris, is repulsive to my sensibilities. I wish to be laid to rest next to those who took a stand, conscious or not, of One Nation, under God, indivisible and justice for all, who swore and oath of allegiance.
Only there will I rest in Peace.
Take me to our remote Kodiak Island property. Scatter me among our neighbors: sitka deer, brown bears, fox, whales, salmon, and otters. There's nothing but the sound of kittiwakes and the wind and the breaking waves. Time is counted by the turning tides. RIP, indeed.
S.
In all seriousness, a recent friend's burial at ANC and my eldest brother's enlightened remark, changed my "don't care, paper box, throw me into the wind," attitude.
Most of us here have buried a few friends who paid the full price of admission, we honored them by dedicating "Sacred Ground", Arlington and our National Veterans Cemeteries, for their interment, laid to rest there, peacefully, we closed the chapter and moved on. As Irwin Shaw remarked in his heartfelt post WWI play Bury the Dead:" there is no room in this world for dead men, they must be buried and forgotten", and rightfully so, but with reminder of the cost of freedom, which "Sacred Ground" thoroughly represents.
Having Honorably Served, Washington Crossing National Cemetery, will be my last stop, in the same ground as my Brother by birth, his wife, and those who held the same belief in our Nation, to have earned admission.
To go quietly into that good night was the anti thesis of Dylan Thomas, anonymity is rejected here. To lay in the wind, to be scattered among the debris, is repulsive to my sensibilities. I wish to be laid to rest next to those who took a stand, conscious or not, of One Nation, under God, indivisible and justice for all, who swore and oath of allegiance.
Only there will I rest in Peace.
Damn well said, there, D.!
Pat
I cant believe no one in here wants to be cremated and have their ashes join Ed Brodie on Luzon Drop Zone, Pineland.
I'm all in for cremation and burial in the clear blue water of the Keys.
I like this one. That way I can get a water jump over Key West, and be buried!
mark46th
01-17-2018, 08:07
My ashes are to be scattered in two places. Half in Laguna Manuela, Baja California and Elephant Head Spring, Nevada, over looking Carrizo Valley...
Cast into bullets then shot into petty dictators around the world.
that way I can be our motto.:p
WarriorDiplomat
01-17-2018, 21:33
Cast into bullets then shot into petty dictators around the world.
that way I can be our motto.:p
I like it,
On the topic if Pelosi, Obama and the ilk get cremated I vote we steal the ashes turn them into toilet paper issued to the military to wipe their asses with and have them flushed down the toilet where they belong
As for myself I think I will have my ashes spread over Pikes Peak overlooking the spot the song America the beautiful was written.....Damn I love these mountains hate the politics but love the mountains my heart and soul is here in these majestic SOB's
banfarang
01-18-2018, 06:53
Scilly drop zone
Golf1echo
01-18-2018, 10:43
Take me to our remote Kodiak Island property. Scatter me among our neighbors: sitka deer, brown bears, fox, whales, salmon, and otters. There's nothing but the sound of kittiwakes and the wind and the breaking waves. Time is counted by the turning tides. RIP, indeed.
S.
That's how my Grandmother, Sister, and Mother rest...although here they are black bears and the tides are the seasons. Ironically on the prominence of Pikes Peak on some family property. I'll probably end up there as well.
I think ideally the way Ötzi died is the most natural although today they frown on people crawling off to die. Sunday morning up on Independence Pass I looked across to the steep snow covered slopes were we lost a family friend to avalanche, he laid under the snow until some time in Spring, it's a magnificent and awesome location...it was good to think of him in the stillness of the morning sunrise...