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Since the thread has turned to the afterlife . . . Recently someone wrote into Popular Science (my second time ever reading it, and now I'm quite certain it was my last) and one of their suggestions for a more 'environmentally friendly' thing to do with your remains has been freaking me out for days.
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At first I thought it was a joke, but it seems to be 0.1% legit and 99.9% creepy.
I can't imagine the type of person who would want to do that.
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Mabey I should gain some weight so my wife can have a bigger gem. (sic)
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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I subscribe to PS....it expands my thought process. I didn't think that article was bad... at least not in comparison to the article on people who leave their bodies to an organization that leaves them in a large field so ME students can examine the various states of decay under real-world and real weather conditions....
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Lis and I joke about the Life Gem thing all the time.
We're both big on the cremation thing (in Winnipeg, seems all the cemeteries are riverfront - graves + erosion = bad!)
I want to be (yes, it's illegal) spread on open water... have ever since I heard the lyrics "Bury me at sea/Where no murd'red ghost can haunt me/If I rock upon the waves/No corpse can lay upon me" she suggests having me pressed into a cubic zirconia will be the only way she'll get jewelry out of me. 
Bren R.
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ah the Pogues!! Great song...great album for that matter. Strangely I was listening to it this morning driving into work.
Yeah, the diamond thing is officially freaky. But I'm not sure if the spreading of ashes at sea is illegal though. I know when I was on the sub we did about 5 or so burials at sea for Vets that had died and had requested it. I don't think we were in international waters either. Maybe the Navy doesn't care if it's illegal cause they sink anyone who was there to bitch about it! 
Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
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Scattering Ones Ashes at Sea
If there's a buck to be made, it can be done! In a memorable, sensitive and caring manner mind you.
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Whoa I just noticed this, directly from the site...
"Locations: San Diego, Florida, Southern California, Arizona, Eastern U.S., & more... Contact us today."
Burial at sea in Arizona? Ohhhkay
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Burial at sea in Arizona? Ohhhkay
They have a giant catapult.
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Hey, we have dry riverbeds everywhere!!! And there is a rather large pond at the Phoenix Zoo !!! Guy
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