Beaming up Scotty

It used to be so simple. You died and, if you were say...Viking, they planted your corpse on a small boat, piled on a few belingings, lit you on fire and shoved off the canoe. If you were Roman they planted your body in the catacombs. And so forth. Once you were dead...so long. Thanks for the memories. Here is what happens to your remains.

Not so today. You have great stuff like Ted Williams having his head preserved in a jar, people having their bodies cryogenically frozen, burials, cremations, being made into diamonds, or, in the case of the former "Scotty" from Star Trek (and a few other lunatics) being launched into space.

I am just waiting for about a hundred years from now when people are routinely making space flights and someone is killed when their spacecraft collides with the floating bottles of people ashes...