A Nottinghamshire crematorium is offering families two new options for the cremated remains of a loved one which are out of this world. Gedling Crematorium is now offering new services called the Memorial Launch and the Voyager Package, which involves ashes being scattered in space.
The crematorium is part of the Westerleigh Group, which has entered into a new partnership with Aura Flights, allowing the new service to become possible. For this service ashes will be placed inside a ‘scatter vessel’ which is fitted to a space-capable biodegradable balloon filled with renewable hydrogen gas.
The ashes are then released in a gentle cascade around 100,000 feet above the earth and 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.
