Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust
Delivering cremated remains to the stratosphere joins a growing list of new ways to memorialize the dead.
Mark Harris says funeral directors talk about it all the time. More and more people are growing tired of traditional funeral services and opting for something a little more creative. “It’s getting more difficult to offer the cookie-cutter send-off,” explains Harris, the author of Grave Matters, which examines how people have started to think, er, outside the box about death.
And so, Harris wasn’t surprised to hear that a new British company is offering to send cremated remains to the stratosphere. High-altitude on its website. “We are all made of stardust.” The stratosphere is not technically space, but for their purposes, it’s close enough.
