NEW YORK (Reuters) -- For those still searching for the perfect holiday gift, how's this for an out-of-this world idea: Space burials.

Celestis Inc, a Houston-based firm that in 1997 arranged the launch of 1960s pop icon Timothy Leary's remains, is planning an April send-off in Russia for as many as 150 ash-filled capsules as part of the cargo on a Kosmos 1 satellite.

The containers, filled with customers' choices of 1 or 7 grams of remains, will share space with data transmission equipment and will orbit the Earth for as long as 156 years before re-entering the atmosphere as a shooting star. Costs ranges from $995 to $5,300, depending on the capsule size.

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/19/offbeat.burial.orbit.reut/index.html

Isn't Earth already floating in space? Then why send our remains into space if we already are in space being on this planet.

I agree. But you know there's loonies galore. My fear is this could cause panic will-writing coupled with rediculous suicides. Self-strangulation might not be uncommon especially among wealthy Herculean-type circus jocks.

The humanity. Oh the humanity.

Oh-Oh-Ohhhhhh!!!

Self-strangulation might not be uncommon especially among wealthy Herculean-type circus jocks. Isn't that called natural selection? Unfavorable genes are removed from the pool?:D