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From: rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: RE:space burial
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 03:05:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 03:05:28 1985
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>Yes, you can be buried in space! Just have someone send your cremated remains
>("cremains," as they were called in the news story on NPR this morning)to SSI
>(not to be confused with the Princeton-based Space Studies Institute, also
>called SSI), and they will further reduce them to fit into a capsule
>approximately 1" by 1-1/4" which will be inscribed with your name, social
>security number, and (optional) religious symbol of your choice.  Then a
>capsule containing several thousand of these will be placed into low earth
>orbit (through the Van Allen Belt, which has very little satellite traffic).

>>Compact little  shapes? (like what the Kelvans did to the crew of the 
>>Enterprise) Low Earth orbit? What a drag. I think I'll wait until 
>>they can give my carcass enough energy to leave the solar system.

I am happy to inform you that your worries are over. SSI plans to follow-up
their first launching immediately with another. This one out of the Solar
System. Can they expect you as a customer?