Allowing others to disperse Cremains

[tomokc]

Was your buddy a prankster?
He definitely had the last laugh

Norm was a huge prankster, but knew where to draw the line. He is buried with his family in Virginia. No cremains at altitude for him!

 

[CFI A&P]

Check with your local laws. If I remember correctly the local guy I know that performs this service has a C172 and goes three miles offshore for some reason.

+1 for the hose method.

 

[Richman]

On a serious note, I had this discussion with my wife, my answer was always that I didn't care what happened to my remains I was done using them. She explained that it wasn't for me, its for those I leave behind. Kinda readjusted my opinion. I really like the tree idea.

Which is why burial services are right up there with weddings: "For only $10,000 more, your loved one can be secure in our "vault-o-matic", shown to resist every form of natural radiation. Isn't that security worth just a little extra?".

I had to go arrange some stuff at a cemetery due to my unwitting acceptance of an executor task....it pretty much pegged out the creep-o-meter.

That being said, this stuff, again like weddings, has a high karma entanglement factor .

 

[Leer-n-pilot]

It's really easy to do from a small plane without making a mess, anything mechanical or electric is WAY over thinking it.

Supplies needed:
25' of braided cord. (think plumb bob, not 550 cord)
6 sheets of tissue paper.
1 Cessna

Lay the sheets of tissue paper out rotating them 45deg on each other as you stack them one on-top of the other. The end result is a "star of david" pattern."
Place the ashes in the center.
Wrap the corners up and tie them around the top with the twine making a "hobo bag".
Carry the assembly to the plane and place it inside.
Tie the twine to the seat rails of the passenger or pilot, fielders choice.
When ready open the window and push the hobo bag outside. The bag will jerk taught at the end of the line and tear open disbursing the ashes.

Do NOT perform this operation over a military installation.

 

[flightprofessor]

I might have asked about this before, but have forgotten responses.
The A & P flat out despises the idea of creating a hole in my aircraft's floorpan installing tube for ashes to disperse.
My pilot window is too small to use, unless I process the remains into very fine particles and pour into dry chemical fire extinguisher which I would the vessel charge with nitrogen.
Attaching a hose to be extended to outside the window of the plane and fastening that at the pilots window, fixing the extinguisher securely to pilots seat, pull pin at desired location and discharge in 10 seconds.
No special modifications required, I could receive box of cremains, process ( perhaps 25) of them in one day's time and ship system to whomever for a fee allowing them to provide last flight.
I laughed at I think it was Neil Armstong's story of he and another pilots disaster trying to perform this duty for a friend.
Thoughts, anyone ?

Yeah, just do it this way...
1:45 if you don't like the movie, waiting, etc.