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by: deltadawn Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 2:53pm  
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 3:00pm  
FacebookAshes To Ammo: How To Reload Your Dead Loved OneNPR STAFFEnlarge this imageThad Holmes and Clem Parnell's company Holy Smoke takes your loved one's ashes and turns them into ammunition.When a loved one dies and is cremated, family members face a tough decision on what do with the ashes. Some want the final resting place to be spectacular — spread in the Grand Canyon, launched into space, sprinkled in Times Square; others just keep Aunt Jane's remains in an urn at home."The ashes get put on the mantel, stay there for a couple of years, and then a couple of years later, they get put in the attic," says Thad Holmes. "A few years later, the house gets sold and, 'Oh gosh, we forgot the ashes!'"Holmes, a conservation enforcement officer in Alabama, and his buddy Clem Parnell, came up with an unusual way to honor the dead. Their company, Holy Smoke, takes your loved one's ashes and turns them into ammunition.The idea was born one night when Holmes and Parnell were working the late shift, talking about how they wanted to be buried. Holmes said he wanted to be cremated, sprinkled on a nearby lake. His partner had another idea."I want my ashes placed into some good turkey-load shotgun shells," Parnell said. That way, someone could go kill a turkey with him, Holmes tells Robert Smith, host of weekends on All Things Considered."He could rest in peace, knowing that one more turkey, the last thing he saw, was Clem screaming at him at 900 feet per second."Holmes' first reaction when he heard his friend? "He just expressed what I'd like to do with my ashes."Holmes says his company's services begin after the funeral. They take the ashes that are sent to them, put them into the requested shells, then ship the ammunition back to the sender. Their biggest concern, he says, is handling the ashes sensitively."We want people to understand that each shipment of ash is handled with utmost care," he says. "So it's not a simple process, you just going out, finding somebody that can go, 'Here, I'll throw 'em in there.' It just doesn't work like that."Holy Smoke, which has been in business for a couple months, charges $850 for a case of shells. The company has shipped out two orders. The feedback, Holmes says, is positive."Without going into detail, I can't tell you who she was, but she was absolutely most appreciative," he says. "She thought it was the best thing in the world for her husband. He had been an avid outdoorsman, an avid duck hunter. She wanted to have her husband's ashes put into some shotgun shells, a duck load, and a portion of them she sent to his friends that he hunted with, so they could do a 21-gun salute for their fallen friend."Holmes says that when he dies, he wants to his remains to be put in the shells, too."My son is a dove hunter, and he loves the outdoors, as I do. I want to have my ashes placed into shotgun shells with dove and quail load," he says. "If I have 250 shotgun shells, which is a case of shells or 10 boxes of shells, each year for 10 years, he can start off a dove season by grabbing one of my boxes with my ashes in them and go out to a dove hunt and say, 'Dad, this one's for you.'"So at least for 10 years I'll be remembered by my son."And, if his son misses, it won't make a difference: "Well, I'll be dead," Holmes says, "and I won't care." 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 4:22pm  
My wife and I have chosen to be cremated.  We don't want to sit on some mantle or have any place special where we'd like to be spread.  Through Deb's family, we were given two cemetery plots in the cemetery where we got married.  I like the idea of leaving a headstone, so we'll have our ashes buried there. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 4:37pm  
Through Deb's family, we were given two cemetery plots in the cemetery where we got married.  I like the idea of leaving a headstone, so we'll have our ashes buried there.
 
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Did you get married in a cemetery, or are you saying the cemetery that belongs to the church where you were married? 4951
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sweetie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 4:39pm  
 
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You can also have the cremated remains made into a diamond. 4951
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deltadawn Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 6:15pm  
There are a lot of options now! 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 7:37pm  
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Cajunmom Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 8:08pm  
You are one weird bird.  That's what makes the world go round.  4951
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deltadawn Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Feb 18, '17 8:29pm  
You are one weird bird.

@Cajunmom: Yep, but since I talk to pets, that isn't really news to anyone here. LOL 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 7 years ago   Feb 19, '17 10:17pm  
My wife and I have chosen to be cremated.  We don't want to sit on some mantle or have any place special where we'd like to be spread.  Through Deb's family, we were given two cemetery plots in the cemetery where we got married.  I like the idea of leaving a headstone, so we'll have our ashes buried there.

@Retired_Engineer:  Good catch!  What I actually meant to write was that we were given two cemetery plots in the little town where we got married.  There is only one church and one (active) cemetery in that town.  There is also an "old" cemetery that has no more spaces in it.  We'll be next to Deb's mother and brother that have already passed.   Emoticon
 
 
My own parents are buried in Baton Rouge.  They bought four plots when they first moved to BR back in the 1950s.  My parents are buried there as well as my younger sister and younger brother.  Neither of those siblings were married. My older sister is buried next to her husband in Baker, LA. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 19, '17 10:28pm  
I just saw a website that will take a bit of your ashes and swirl them in a glass ball.This beats being in an urn on a mantel.http://canyouactually.com/artful-ashes/ 4951
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Txbutterfly Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   Feb 20, '17 9:30am  
My DH wants to be cremated and then buried with me at our family church cemetery. I told him i was going to dump him off the back of the cruise ship I was going on afterwards :D not going to keep any funky ashes in my house. LOL, he said, ok, i wont care, I am gone already.  His daughter has her brothers ashes inside a necklace. I think that is morbid and creepy, but hey, they are kind of creepy in a goth kind of way anyways. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 20, '17 9:36am  
I just saw a website that will take a bit of your ashes and swirl them in a glass ball.This beats being in an urn on a mantel.http://canyouactually.com/artful-ashes/

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Really like this idea,  for people and pets 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Feb 20, '17 9:43am  
Not a fan of any of these weird things.  Remains should not be separated by in the wind or put in some tchotchke that will be forgotten or end up at a thrift shop, IMO.  Put them in the ground! 4951
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