A funerary vendor called “Eternal Image” has licensed the Star Trek brand to provide a line of urns and caskets inspired by the sci-fi series. The first two products are an urn, a metallic sphere held aloft by three Starfleetesque buttresses, and a casket shaped like a photon torpedo. The urn will be $800 when it’s released in the middle of this year, while the casket has no price as yet. Expect the casket to be several thousand dollars, for sure.
My preference, since I don’t think I’ve made it clear before, would be to stuffed to overflowing with lilac seeds, doused in beer, and buried in a pine box packed with fertilizer. I’m sure that violates state and federal corpse handling procedure, so you have my permission to steal my body and bury it in an unmarked grave.
Product Page [EternalImage.com via Gearlog]
I’m with you…My dying wish is to be composted and then used as fertilizer.
If my small amount of exposure to Star Trek conventions is to be trusted, those caskets aren’t going to sell well until they start manufacturing them in extra-large sizes.
Green burial’s becoming all the rage among dead people! Google for it, first link.
Can’t speak to the beer-dousing step though.
lol Didy I was thinking the exact same thing. Many trekkers are 250lbs+
They will definitely not fit properly into such a narrow deathbox.
Meh, I guess if they can afford the fancy trek-death-box, they can afford the lypo required to fit into it as well
“…so you have my permission to steal my body and bury it in an unmarked grave.”
Way ahead of you. But good to know you’re on board with the plan. Do we have an ETA yet on, you know, the starting point? I’ve put the lilac seeds in the fridge, but the package says they’ll either germinate or go bad in six months anyway.
In the UK, there are no restrictions on where you can be buried and indeed how as long you have permission from the landowner. Even in the US I think it’s a sin of omission rather than commission.
Death – the final frontier…