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2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:37 am Post subject:
I've always wanted to be cremated. I'd like my ashes scattered on the moon but don't know if that would ever be possible. I wouldn't want people to spend a ton of money on it either - a cardboard box from the market will do

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:37 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Er, If you've been reduced to a small amount of powder why do they bother with a lifesize coffin?

You'll still be the same volume (unless they de-frost and drain you) as you've been frozen, not burned.

But the proces is freeze drying according to the article so your remains would be all dehydrated surely.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:57 am Post subject:

ele wrote:

But the proces is freeze drying according to the article so your remains would be all dehydrated surely.

Hmm, good point.

Anybody any experience of freeze-drying bodies? Anyone? Anyone?
Well, does anyone have any experience of freeze-drying anything then?

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 11:07 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

ele wrote:

But the proces is freeze drying according to the article so your remains would be all dehydrated surely.

Hmm, good point.

Anybody any experience of freeze-drying bodies? Anyone? Anyone?
Well, does anyone have any experience of freeze-drying anything then?

all you ever needed to know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_drying

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 11:16 am Post subject:
I dont understand where the Mercury comes into it, is it in us or is it part of the burning process ?

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 11:18 am Post subject:

2steps wrote:

I've always wanted to be cremated. I'd like my ashes scattered on the moon but don't know if that would ever be possible. I wouldn't want people to spend a ton of money on it either - a cardboard box from the market will do

Could be a bit expensive ! and wouldnt your ashes just float away

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 1:10 pm Post subject:

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Could be a bit expensive ! and wouldnt your ashes just float away

yes but just think

you would be part of the whole universe...................almost cosmic

a very 1970's type of thought, that one

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 1:26 pm Post subject:
Is this where I pop the bubble and point out that we're all made of exploded star-matter anyway?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 1:27 pm Post subject:

Andy B wrote:

I dont understand where the Mercury comes into it, is it in us or is it part of the burning process ?

Dental fillings and other metals from structural repairs.

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 1:42 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Is this where I pop the bubble and point out that we're all made of exploded star-matter anyway?

now you've gone and spoiled it.......... just as i was having a hitch hikers moment as well

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 05 6:43 pm Post subject:
Stick me in the ground, standing up (uses less space?) wrapped in a shrous made of some organic hemp maaaaaaaaaan, and plant a native hardwood over me noggin. Then bang a drum and drink some home-brew and have a larf.

sean
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 05 6:46 pm Post subject:
Should we wait until you're dead, or is this the next Downsizer meet?

hermil

Joined: 04 Sep 2005
Posts: 42
Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 05 5:40 pm Post subject:
When my grandma died, my dad scattered her ashes on her allotment. So I suppose she got recycled. She kept up her allotment until she was well into her 80s and didn't really want to give it up then.

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