If you're looking for an 'out of this world' way to say goodbye to a loved one, then a Bristol crematorium might just have the answer. Westerleigh Crematorium Group has partnered with Aura Flights to offer the chance to send the ashes on a journey to 'space'.
The new ‘memorial launch’ - yours for £3,000 - involves ashes being placed in a ‘scatter vessel’ which is fitted to a space-capable biodegradable balloon filled with renewable hydrogen gas.
According to Westerleigh, the vessel is taken up to around 100,000ft where the ashes are released in a 'gentle cascade'. The firm says the ashes will spend 'the next three to six months orbiting the globe until they re-enter the atmosphere, where they seed the formation of clouds and fall back to earth as raindrops and snowflakes all over the world'.
