In recent years, he has heard of urns shaped as golf bags, putting ashes into jewelry and companies shooting cremated remains into space.
She saw herself creating tailored events that celebrated the life of the deceased in a highly personalized manner: sending cremated ashes into space, or shooting them out of a gun, or compressing them into a gemstone.
(He went on to direct a small rocket-launching firm that will, for a fee, put cremated ashes into orbit).
Those who prefer the water to dry land can turn to Eternal Reefs, a company based in Atlanta that mixes cremated remains into cast concrete to create artificial coral reefs.
And it was harder still to realise that this fragile mirror could tow him free of Earth merely by the power of the sunlight it would trap". The voyage, scheduled to launch at the end of 2014, is being organised by Celestis, which runs "memorial spaceflights" offering families the chance to send cremated remains into space (joining Clarke on board the Sunjammer would cost upwards of £8,000).
Their pursuits are wide ranging from Elysium placing cremated remains into low-Earth orbit, SpaceVR developing virtual reality imaging platforms, Mountain View concern Made in Space, Inc. offering rugged 3D printers, to Planet Labs, Spire and Skybox offering various cubesat solutions for Earth observations.
Hackley recently heard of a company that launches peoples' cremated remains into orbit around the earth — perpetual travel.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Metropolitan Opera canceled its Saturday afternoon performance of "Guillaume Tell" after an audience member sprinkled an unidentified powder, which police believe was cremated ashes, into the orchestra pit.
At a time when you can actually launch cremated remains into space, these nontraditional embalmings are just another creative way people are choosing to celebrate a person's life, and changing the narrative around death.
Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare's co-writers Justin Crowe of Chronicle Cremation Designs, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, mixes cremated human ashes into a glaze which he uses to coat bowls, vases, candle holders, coffee cups, urns and other ceramic items.
