h a l f b a k e r y"More like a cross between an onion, a golf ball, and a roman multi-tiered arched aquaduct."
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So that when the questioning youngster approaches and says: grandpa, so where is grandma now, you can say, with a straight face, she's up there, lad, she's up there.
The technology is there
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/ Start a cemetary now [theircompetitor, Oct 17 2004]
Floating Cemetery Design in Hong Kong
http://www.cnn.com/...ndex.html?hpt=hp_c2 [theircompetitor, Nov 26 2012]
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But could you imagine if one fell out... |
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This is a little like putting a Toys 'R' Us at the North Pole. But more poetic, I think, to scatter ones ashes in space. |
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Put Toys 'R' Us anywhere you want -- my kids order online :) |
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This gives me terrible associations to the way corpses can swell up with internal gases. |
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I assume it would be kept out of the flight-paths of vultures. |
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btw, I did not necessarily mean to exclude cremation or any other method which would improve storage compression. |
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Really. A body's water content is going to kill your mileage. Cremating would let you put up 20 or 30 bodies in the same plane instead of just one fresh corpse. |
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They could soar on the thermal from the crematorium. |
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Dearly belofted, we are gonflabled here today... |
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I don't know, I thought floating above is better. |
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