TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

I was surprised reading “From

Here To Eternity” by exactly how many choices after death there are nowadays, far from simply being laid to rest in a churchyard. Anthropologists laud the common human practice of burying our dead as one of the hallmark traits that set us apart from other primates. Town planners, on the other hand, must lament it.

The dilemma is that most of our graveyards and cemeteries are nearly full, yet people have a nasty habit of continuing to die.

My family have spoken about death quite openly and we have all agreed that we want to be cremated and then have our ashes spread in the ocean or up mountains. But I liked these other new options too—combining ashes into a vial of tattoo ink, donating yourself to science, getting shot into space, floating out in a Viking boat, becoming a coral reef…

These other options certainly all beat the idea of lying for all eternity in an overcrowded cemetery.

Ryan George, Denbigh