You Can Be a Shooting Star (Literally)

Elysium Space recentlydebuted another method of handling your loved one’s ashes.  Elysium will launch their ashes into space ina special capsule with an optional engraved message, which will then orbit ourplanet for several months before reentering the atmosphere and burning up intoa shooting star.  While in orbit, you cantrack the capsule using the company’s app.

The first launch is plannedfor Summer 2014.  The company hopes toeventually offer customers the option to send all of the ashes of their lovedones (instead of just a portion) as well as the option to choose a specificdestination like the sun.

SeeColette Bennett, Out of This World! FromAshes to an Afterlife in Space, HLN, Aug. 24, 2013.