In class a while back we began to talk about alternative ways of disposing of the dead besides the usual inhumation or cremation. A whole host of options came up, including some quite unusual ones that I had never heard of, ranging from having a loved ones cremated remains turned into diamond jewelry, launching the deceased into space and becoming part of a coral reef on the ocean floor. These ideas intrigued me and when I got home I started ‘googling’ them, this only opened the door to a Pandora ’s Box of slightly morbid oddity. What really surprised me through was just how commercialized the funerary industry had become, through I don’t know why I was so shocked really, almost all other aspects of our culture and society have been heavily commercialized in the same way, I suppose not having any proximity with death made me just never really give the industry too much thought. You can now get almost anything, all manner of weird and wonderful funerary paraphernalia online! It seems that funerals and death are big business these days!
On my search I came across an organization that offers a unique way of scattering a loved ones ashes….on a skydive. 'Blue Sky Goodbye' offers to “return your loved one to nature”, accompanied by 2 experienced sky divers and includes a tribute video and a certificate of scattering all for FREE! It’s a pretty novel way to go…and it doesn’t involve being eaten by anything, which is always a plus in my books!!!!
The image is from blueskygoodbye's web page
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