Death or Disco? Preserve Your Loved Ones as Their Favorite Vinyl Record

Worldcrunch via Time.com ^ | Oct. 19, 2011 | Thomas Wyss / TAGES-ANZEIGER

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(ZURICH) — Tupac Shakur ended up as a joint. The long-circulated rumor was recently confirmed by two members of his former band Outlawz, EDI Mean and Young Noble. In 1996, the two musicians actually mixed the ashes of the assassinated hip-hop star with marijuana and smoked it just like Tupac had asked in his song Black Jesus: "Last Wishes, niggas, smoke my ashes."

Of course, Tupac's last wish is hardly common. Still, it isn't as unusual as one may think. The number of people choosing an alternative to the peaceful coffin or urn of ashes is increasing every year. If fate has already gambled away half of your battle, the reasoning goes, you should at least be able to organize your departure entirely on your own terms.

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For those who plan ahead...

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FYI

[frogjerk]

The number of people choosing an alternative to the peaceful coffin or urn of ashes is increasing every year.

This number is probably directly proportional to number of people denying the Resurrection of the Body.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Charles Martel]

This number is probably directly proportional to number of people denying the Resurrection of the Body.

These folks who end up pressed into vinyl LPs might still resurrect... but they'll most likely thereafter have an irresistable urge to rotate at 33.3 rpm.

[JoeProBono]

[svcw]

They still will be resurrected.

[svcw]

A high school friend of my bothers has already made a deal with Freebee, to have his ashes mixed with the plastics, so he can have the discs handed out to the attenders of the funeral.
Someone posted awhile back that you can have your ashes mixed with some sort of concrete and the clumps are placed in an artificial reef in the Caribbean. That sounds interesting.

[frogjerk]

LOL

[WOBBLY BOB]

I’m going off in a aerial star burst shell. I can rain down fire and ash on all my friends and kin on July 4th,

[svcw]

Nice. I bet you could find someone to put that together.
Ok, I also laughed because if done right they would all have little burn marks on their arms, so they could always remember you.

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Some people prefer to *sleep with the fishes.*

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[svcw]

Love it.
My husband told me he wanted to rolled up in a grass weaved blanket and tossed in the woods.
I told him I wasn’t spending the money on the blanket.

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Have you got rid of your Christmas tree yet? We're doing ours this weekend.