Funeral Home Will Shoot Your Ashes With Fireworks

Sign me up ASAP! I don't trust anyone in my family to take even the slightest care of my ashes once I'm gone.

"On Saturday night, Greenlawn Funeral Homes will present the first display of a new Firework Memorial program, a partnership with AM Pyrotechnics in which fireworks are manufactured with cremated remains. Basically, ashes are fired into the air with the explosives.Some have said, "this is the coolest thing I've ever seen," said funeral director Jim Carver about the new program. One family has purchased a prearranged fireworks memorial for the one-year anniversary of a loved one's death.

Still, Carver said, others think it sounds a little weird."-Springfield News-Leader

I don't think this sounds weird at all. This is straight out of our former space program. All we need is Walter Cronkite broadcasting from the launch. This is going to revolutionize the burial industry. I mean, when you're running out the clock and on death's door, trying to figure out if you're going to heaven or hell, take the guess work out and blast your way towards the Pearly Gates!