I bumped into this and at first I thought that perhaps it was a title of a new video game or a top secret code name for a strange undercover operation of some hideous secret service.
I run a few searches, made some of my own and I found out
the new last resort of all (or those who can pay for such). In the past I wrote about space suites (Galactic suites) and this is a cool service and something different to experience... or live.
Keyword here of course is Live (from Life...). I mean for sure once that you heart pumps and you have your eyes open you can experience wonderful (and lot of bad) things in our little planet. But, to get others into the expense and trouble to get buried under a different type of dirt, or have memorials conducted on the moon is something strange for my ears.Around I read... (via)
"...For example, cremated remains from 187 people — including "Star Trek" actor James Doohan and Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper — are due to be sent into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket sometime in March. The families of the dearly departed paid between $995 to $5,300 for the sendoff, arranged by Houston-based Space Services Inc.
Another company, ZeroG Aerospace Inc. of Seattle, hopes to launch a rocket next month with mementos from by people who paid as little as $49.95.
Colorado-based Beyond-Earth Enterprises plans to launch a rocket on a brief flight in October with hair samples or fingernail clippings sent by people who paid $34.95 for the “DNA kit” package. The company will also transport science experiments — no animals allowed — for $2,500..."
Also here (via)
"...According to Artur Arakelov, a department chief at RSC Energia, technically Russia has the necessary capabilities to "bury" a persons remains in space. This can be done in one of two ways:
If a client or their relatives wish the deceased's ashes to circle the globe, an urn will be launched into low Earth orbit (LEO). If they want the urn to "hang" over one particular location on Earth, the container will be lofted into a much higher geostationary orbit at an altitude of 22,300 miles (35,885 kilometers).
The second way is certainly more expensive. But you get what you pay for -- "If the urn is launched into LEO, it will become just regular space debris," remarked Arakelov..."
Overall, the Russian space community is not enthusiastic about such an undertaking (excuse the pun).
Isn't more normal or mainstream to do space tourism if someone affords it? For example like a ride to the international space station that Richard Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic provides.
Isn't there enough hunger, poverty, diseases on earth that money and sanity can help solve? I mean giving hundreds or thousands of dollars to send ashes to the sky, certainly doesn't send your beloved ones to heaven (if this is something people may imagine). It is simply a rocket, with some ashes that orbits or explodes in space and that is all. All and all photos and feelings and other things that remind your beloved one are here on earth. Some people, yet, also include photos in the rockets. I say, better burn them (the photos) if you don't like them and with the space ticket money simply go for some vacations. Either way, no deceased one will come back in this life.
If you like a suggestion for Top 10 spacey things to do before you die, follow this link for ideas, or suggest yours here to make a huge list.
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