Topic - Want A Celestial Burial?
Have you budgeted for your burial in low-Earth orbit? For a modest five thousand dollars, you can have a travel-size bottle of your ashes spin for years at seventeen thousand miles an hour until it gradually burns up when it re-enters the atmosphere. If you want the deluxe celestial burial, for twelve thousand dollars, you can send a gram of cremated remains blasting on to the moon or have them shot out into deep space. Yes, believe it or not hundreds of Americans have already arranged for space burials this year. Entrepreneurs have visions of cemeteries dotting the ghostly lunar landscape. Perhaps it’s a fitting end to a loved one who always wanted to go to the moon. I’m worried about thousands of those bottles of ashes speeding around, adding to the space junk that’s already there creating a hazard for astronauts and scientists. Oh well. It’s commerce!
