Since there was no money in the Star Trek universe (until, apparently, the Ferengi reinstalled it or something), shouldn’t these items be free to really get into the spirit of the show?
For the millions of fans on our planet and beyond, our new line of STAR TREK urns, caskets, monuments and vaults will be an important discovery indeed. After ten movies and five television series, phrases like “Live long and prosper,” “Resistance is futile” and “Space: the final frontier” have become part of our global vocabulary.
Monuments and vaults will also debut next year. The Eternal Image STAR TREK line is licensed for sale in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Korea and Japan.
The first two products to debut will be the STAR TREK urns and caskets.
Science fiction not your thing? These guys have a baseball urn with your fav team’s logo or you can be buried like a dog.
I’ve always told my wife that a plain, ol’ pine box will be fine for me.
Not Anymore!
Now if I can just get the thing shot out of a starship . . .
Nerds in life, nerds in death.
What a horrible waste of food!! — sentiment though not quote from Valentine Michael Smith in Stranger in a Strange Land.
Insisting on being buried in the ground upon death is the highest form of selfishness. Great, now that land will never be used by anybody again because you wanted to plant your corpse there.
Thanks a lot, ass hole.
I always thought the “Star Trek Way of Death” was to be the one wearing a red shirt in a landing party.
#4 – Sea Lawyer,
I agree!! I just want to get back in the food chain. Feed me to an endangered carnivore in the wild. Or, get all the pollutants off me, fill my gut with sand and chuck me in the ocean.
Medical schools always need cadavers for patients to learn on. After they harvest usable organs for transplants, of course.
Now if these could also be shot into space, you would really have something!
Once my mind is uploaded to a computer you can do what ever you want with my corpse. Fertilizer or food, I don’t care.
#7 – Uncle Dave,
Good point. Tough choice, your idea essentially ends up furthering the cause of humanity. Mine donates the carcass and all organs to other species. Hmm….
…nerds…
You guys really don’t care if you ever meet a woman, do you?
Donor cadavers do have to meet requirements. They will not accept too obese of bodies, nor bodies excessively ravaged by disease or trauma. You need to check with the particular medical school or donor organization. Many bodies are parsed out now in parts, particularly remains not suited for whole body gross dissection.
Ultra-cremation. Vaporize me into a greenhouse gas and release me into the atmosphere that I may do my part to contribute.
#6
I think the best way if to bury you and then plant a tree on top of your corpse, that way it’ll get a decent amount of fertilizer.
If I wanted to be buried, I’d write in my will that my body parts are to be
rearranged (like my arms and legs switched, fingers detached and stuffed up my nose into my cranial cavity, rib cage rotated 180 degrees) and a kazoo placed in my mouth, just to f@*k with the archaeologists.
I want one that continually plays “KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!”
I thought the Star Trek way of dieing was being vaporized by a phaser gun.
#13 – iGW,
Just plain normal cremation will do that perfectly well. Hmm…. I wonder how much we liberals in control (of absolutely nothing in reality) could piss you off if we made cremation illegal.
#18 🙂 I suppose option 2 would be some way of composting flesh for maximum gas release….
#15 – I want to have a beer with you some day!
#19 – iGW,
Hmm…. Maybe I really don’t have any free will. I tried to avoid saying this and only succeeded for about 10 seconds.
Aren’t you already releasing enough gas?