DailyDirt: Bring Out Your Dead…
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Dying is usually not a pleasant eventuality, but no one has figured out how to live forever yet. So in the meantime, there are all sorts of ways for folks to bury their loved ones. Here are just a few out-of-the-ordinary ways to be laid to rest.
- Elvis Presley’s original crypt is being auctioned off, and a really big fan of Elvis will be able to rest in peace where Elvis once did. The bidding starts at $100,000 — but as the saying goes, “You can’t take it with you…” [url]
- There are a bunch of companies that will turn ashes of loved ones (human or pet) into diamonds. Maybe they’ll start engraving decoded genomes onto the diamonds, and that’ll help preserve even more of our dearly departed. [url]
- Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original Star Trek series, has been launched into orbit to his final resting place — as (some of) his ashes were aboard the second stage of the SpaceX rocket that met up with the International Space Station. Celestis is the company that provided the service for Doohan, and it usually charges about $3,000 for a gram of ashes to reach Earth orbit. [url]
- To find some more bizarre/crazy stuff, check out some things that other StumbleUpon users have found. [url]
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Filed Under: ashes, burial, crypt, diamonds, elvis presley, james doohan, scotty, space, star trek
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Bring Out Your Dead…”
Elvis isn't dead
He just returned home.
Elvis isn't dead
I think it’d be creepy to be buried in a tomb that someone else was already buried in! But it don’t much matter when your dead.
Elvis isn't dead
It Might.
Diamonds schmimons..
I wanna be turned into buckyballs!
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What about all your other elements? Not sure why people are so focused on the fate of their carbon atoms….
“There are a bunch of companies that will turn ashes of loved ones (human or pet) into diamonds. Maybe they’ll start engraving decoded genomes onto the diamonds, and that’ll help preserve even more of our dearly departed.”
Passing on the family jewls =)
Thread title reminded me of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ringing a bell in The Stand:
“Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead! The dark man’s coming! The man with no face! Bring out your dead!”
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Well of course they could go into making Hydrogenated, Halogenated, or even Oxygenated Fullerenes maybe even the Endohedral ones too.
Though nothing is as pure and symmetrical as a C60 structure. It’s like a world unto itself. And if you made enough of it you could shape it into a structure that would allow my head to be frozen at 0 Kelvin for prosperity.. either that or something that far future aliens could design some sort of Awesome “Thompson Ball” (Patent pending) game around 😉
If you have a limb amputated will they turn it into diamond for you while you are still alive? How about that for an engagement ring?
Personally I don’t find the diamond thing too creepy. Back in the Victorian and Georgian eras, apparently they used to make bracelets and necklaces woven from the hair of the deceased.
Just do a Google search on “mourning jewelry” and eventually you’ll come to it.