Take a Death Uber to Space!

[Kaido]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/02/us/elysium-space-memorial-launch/index.html

I especially like that they refer to it as "ride-sharing" lol:

The San Francisco-based company said families paid about $2,500 to have a sample of their loved ones' ashes placed aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Man, that's cheaper than a lot of casket options! I'm definitely adding this to my will. TO THE MOON, ALICE!

 

[ctbaars]

$2,500.00 for only for a small sample; You still incur all the other costs. And these and many others are just temporarily in space. Eugene Shoemaker's ashes on the moon is pretty cool though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's actually pretty cool. It's also incredible how relatively cheap it is to send something to space now. Though I wonder if this is just going in LEO and going to burn up in a few years or if it's going high enough to stay up permanently.

I always thought it would be cool to make a small satellite and have it sent up. Though I imagine the cost is still quite high for an individual sat. In this case everybody contributing $2,500 is what is paying for it really. Looks like each slab can hold 60 or so, not sure how many in the sat.

 

[Kaido]

Eugene Shoemaker's ashes on the moon is pretty cool though.

Like guacamole, that costs extra