Your Last Wishes Can Be as Unique as You Are

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Katie was born on July 4th. She got married on that day also and gave birth to her son on July 6th (he was due on the 4th). She was in the military and is a proud American. For her, Independence Day and fireworks have special meaning. So, when she indicated her wishes in her estate planning documents, she included that she wants her cremains (cremated remains) to be put into fireworks to be set off on the following July 4th and left the person she appointed to be her agent $3,000 to do it.

Katie is not the only one who does not want to spend eternity in a wooden box in the ground. Deathcare startups have become more and more common in the United States and around the world, giving people other options instead of a traditional burial.

In one example, Alex Clements of Mesoloft launches human cremains far above the Earth—at the request of families of the deceased. Mesoloft has sent hundreds of pounds of human ashes miles above the Earth. While it may sound like an unusual memorial practice, “(t)here’s seismic shifts in the industry,” says Clements, a mechanical engineer and Mesoloft’s head of operations. “I think people are tired of being put in a wooden box in the ground.”

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