So that when the questioning youngster approaches and says: grandpa, so where is grandma now, you can say, with a straight face, she's up there, lad, she's up there.
-- theircompetitor, Mar 16 2004

The technology is there http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/
Start a cemetary now [theircompetitor, Oct 17 2004]

Floating Cemetery Design in Hong Kong http://www.cnn.com/...ndex.html?hpt=hp_c2
[theircompetitor, Nov 26 2012]

But could you imagine if one fell out...
-- MikeOliver, Mar 16 2004


This is a little like putting a Toys 'R' Us at the North Pole. But more poetic, I think, to scatter ones ashes in space.
-- DrCurry, Mar 16 2004


Put Toys 'R' Us anywhere you want -- my kids order online :)
-- theircompetitor, Mar 16 2004


This gives me terrible associations to the way corpses can swell up with internal gases.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 16 2004


I assume it would be kept out of the flight-paths of vultures.
-- kropotkin, Mar 17 2004


btw, I did not necessarily mean to exclude cremation or any other method which would improve storage compression.
-- theircompetitor, Mar 17 2004


Really. A body's water content is going to kill your mileage. Cremating would let you put up 20 or 30 bodies in the same plane instead of just one fresh corpse.
-- unequivocal, Apr 07 2005


They could soar on the thermal from the crematorium.
-- spidermother, Feb 01 2006


Dearly belofted, we are gonflabled here today...
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 14 2010


I don't know, I thought floating above is better.
-- theircompetitor, Nov 26 2012



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