Here's an odd question.

[johnm]

the old boy was a topdressing pilot and he died first. the old girl kept his ashes and when she died we organised to have the 2 containers placed in a topdressing plane and have them spread on some local hills

 

prior, after some phone organisation we left the containers at the local topdressing pilots house (who knew the olds) (with numerous bottles of wine and beer and perhaps cash)

 

................. I never verified what actually did happen but believe it to be true - that's all that matters

 

 

[spacesailor]

"I want a permanent site for my remains, and I want that site to contain my bones. Perhaps 100 years after my demise, my descendants might like to have somewhere to go to say, "If not for him, then there would be no me". "

 

Leave your body to science , People it helps will BLESS YOU.

 

5 Kg of ashes, make 25grams into 20 balloons.

 

How do you stop the proliferation of  Great Grand children ?

 

spacesailor

 

 

[kgwilson]

"I want a permanent site for my remains, and I want that site to contain my bones. Perhaps 100 years after my demise, my descendants might like to have somewhere to go to say, "If not for him, then there would be no me". "

 

That of course is based on the assumption that in 100 years the planet as we know it will still be here.

 

 

[KRviator]

5 Kg of ashes, make 25grams into 20 balloons.

 

You're an order of magnitude out. 25 grams per balloon, by 20 balloons is 500 grams. ? 

 

 

[Litespeed]

We take our whole lives wrecking the planet.

 

The least we can do is not make a toxic tomb for ourselves.

 

Either feed me to the fish and make me protein or plant me under a tree and I can feed the future.

 

No box. no fuss but have a drink and party well.

 

 

[skippydiesel]

"

 

How do you stop the proliferation of  Great Grand children ?

 

spacesailor

 

Educate women, provide "free" healthcare and raise the standard of living. In every country that this has happened, fecundity has decreased to below replacement.

 

The rich west must bite the bullet and start improving the lives of the poor (without  political condition) to slow and then reduce the world population - Alternative - release a biological agent that will decimate the human species in one hit

 

 

[M61A1]

Take me to the taxidermist, have me stuffed and use me as a hat stand (naked) at my ex-wife's house.

 

 

[Butch]

Educate women, provide "free" healthcare and raise the standard of living

 

I thought we already do that in Australia. What Country do you live in?

 

Take me to the taxidermist, have me stuffed and use me as a hat stand (naked) at my ex-wife's house

 

Just make sure you take a Viagra as you are passing away, otherwise there will be nowhere to hang a hat LOL

 

 

[Butch]

The rich west must bite the bullet and start improving the lives of the poor (without  political condition) to slow and then reduce the world population

 

A mate of mine invented a chair to take to Third World Country's to slow population growth.

 

It worked by offering males $100 to sit on the chair with their goolies hanging down through a hole in the chair. Then he would get two bricks and smack the goolies in between them.

 

I said " bloody hell that would hurt " and he replied  " not really just make sure you don't get your thumbs caught between the bricks "

 

sorry ! couldn't resist. 

 

 

[skippydiesel]

I thought we already do that in Australia. What Country do you live in?

 

To some extent yes - that's why our natural reproduction/fecundity is below replacement.

 

We are only "growing" due to immigration.

 

 

[Bernie]

My family grave site in Richmond Tasmania..last opened in 1956 when my Grandfather was inturned .

 

Since then everyone has been cremated .

 

Photo taken last year for my brother's request who has never been to Tassie .

 

At Least I'm still above ground .

 

Bernie .

 

[old man emu]

Take me to the taxidermist, have me stuffed and use me as a hat stand (naked) at my ex-wife's house.

 

She's you Ex- because she couldn't even hang a yarmulke on it when you were married!

 

 

 

[mnewbery]

https://www.avweb.com/insider/on-ash-scattering/

 

 

[M61A1]

She's you Ex- because she couldn't even hang a yarmulke on it when you were married!

 

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Actually.....She's my ex because she's a fat, lazy, petty, manipulative, religious nutjob and spendthrift, getting rid of her was an expensive exercise, but worth every cent.

 

 

[old man emu]

Actually.....She's my ex because she's a fat, lazy, petty, manipulative, religious nutjob and spendthrift, getting rid of her was an expensive exercise, but worth every cent.

 

Good to see that the relationship remains amicable!

 

 

[onetrack]

[skippydiesel]

Actually.....She's my ex because she's a fat, lazy, petty, manipulative, religious nutjob and spendthrift, getting rid of her was an expensive exercise, but worth every cent.

 

 

 

Just love it -  what did you see in her before she revealed her "true" self ??????

 

 

[mnewbery]

Does it really matter? Young people fall in love and breed because that is what young people do. Economies are built on this fact.

 

An earlier AvWeb article...

 

https://www.avweb.com/insider/ash-scattering-done-right/

 

 

[skippydiesel]

Mnewbery - you old romantic you!!

 

Like the article you provided - quit spiritual, even for an old atheist like me.

 

 

[Russty]

In Queensland, you may be buried on land 'that you have an affinity with' but Noosa Council want $1300 to do the paperwork!!

 

So, like many correspondents, I just want to get the backhoe out & be prepared for a simple 'dust to dust' job.

 

PS Skippydiesel should be writing a regular comedy column for us. 

 

 

[skippydiesel]

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PS Skippydiesel should be writing a regular comedy column for us. 

 

Friend/ Buddy/Maaaate  - you may eat at my table any time. 

 

Flattery will get you a long way but eventually my dyslexia would catch you/me out (Like the time a ran a "Pubic Auction".) 

 

On the other hand it may be sarcasm but I will take it as a compliment and at last recognition that 99% of what I say be be taken with alight heart and never any offence intended.