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Turn Your Cremated Remains into Live Ammunition

Discussion in 'Found on the Net' started by grumpyolddude, Oct 10, 2011.

  1. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Facing tough decisions on how to stretch your funeral expense dollars? Here's the way to get the most "bang" for your bucks!

    http://inhabitat.com/turn-your-cremated-remains-into-live-ammunition-with-holy-smoke/

     
    grumpyolddude, Oct 10, 2011
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  2. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Only 100 rounds? Crock of shit. I'm worth at least a thousand rounds of 7.62x51mm.
     
    Plan9, Oct 11, 2011
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  3. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Stands to reason that larger people would yield more shells. Need to pork out before you pass.
     
    grumpyolddude, Oct 11, 2011
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  4. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Yeah, but you have to figure that they have to cut the ashes with, let's say, at least 80% actual propellant. Corpse powder doesn't send bullets down barrels. Now, assuming each cartridge has a few grains of me in it, I could easily be spread out over an entire case of small arms ammunition.

    But rifle and shotgun shells are for amateurs. I want my dusty leftovers loaded into 40mm rounds for a Milkor MGL. I want someone to blow up stuff using grenades loaded with my remains. That'd be gnarly. And be the quickest way to spread my ashes over a wide area: with high explosives.
     
    Plan9, Oct 11, 2011
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  5. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    No way. I already have a deal with a papermaker and bookbinder to infuse my remains into a volume of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 11, 2011
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  6. Joniemack

    Joniemack Beta brainwaves in session

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    Hmm, you think he does fireworks as an alternate for the gun shy?
     
    Joniemack, Oct 11, 2011
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  7. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    Hunter Thompson went out that way.
     
    Stan, Oct 11, 2011
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  8. Joniemack

    Joniemack Beta brainwaves in session

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    Well, being shot from a cannon is not exactly the same thing but close enough, I guess.:D
     
    Joniemack, Oct 11, 2011
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  9. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    I like the fireworks idea. Being infused in a volume of books would be a lasting legacy, though. Both have their attraction.
     
    grumpyolddude, Oct 11, 2011
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  10. CHINESE CRESTED

    chinese crested Slightly Tilted

    You can be pressed into a diamond - well your ashes can be - trying to press a whole body like that would just be messy. Son would like to be lobbed out of a plane somewhere tht wild animals can enjoy him (not that place with the dead loose tigers).
     
    chinese crested, Oct 21, 2011
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