LF: Going out with a bang: The service that will turn your loved one into live ammunition

Title: Going out with a bang: The service that will turn your loved one into live ammunition
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... urn-loved-live-ammunition.html
Published: Jul 31, 2011
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2011-07-31 13:13:00 by Sebastian
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Views: 4608
Comments: 7

A bizarre new service that allows you to lock and load your loved one's ashes is blowing up on the internet.

Holy Smoke, based in Stockton, Alabama, boasts a 'tribute to your outdoorsman or woman like no other,' according to their website.

The company offers a means to 'continue to protect your home and family even after you are gone,' by turning ashes into fully-functioning bullets.

Guns n' ashes: Holy Smoke says it offers its customers the opportunity for the deceased to continue to protect his or her home after they're gone

Once the deceased57;s family decides the calibre and gauge of the ammunition, they send one pound of their dead relative's ashes.

From ashes to gunpowder: Holy Smoke offers the ability to go on one last hunting trip with your dead loved one

From there, the staff place a portion of the cremated remains into each shotshell or cartridge, depending on the ammo selected.

In return, Holy Smoke sends the family a case of up to 250 bullets for display in the home or to take on a hunting trip.

The company claims its methods add up to a fraction of the cost of most burial services cost.

Prices begin at $1,250 for the 250 rounds for shot guns and pistols, and 100 rounds for rifles.

The type of service, which is offered through their website MyHolySmoke.com, is unconventional, but certainly not unheard of.

In 2005, the ashes of author Hunter S. Thompson were famously shot out of a cannon, six months after the Gonzo journalist killed himself.

The celebration was funded mostly by Pirates of the Caribbean actor and Thompson's close friend Johnny Depp.

The ashes of the late Hunter S. Thompson explode over the top of his memorial on the Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colorado

The ashes of the late author Hunter S. Thompson were loaded into a cannon he designed and fired in 2005 as part of a spectacular light show

He blew his brains out in his own house setting it up so that his son and current wife would find him.

FUCK Hunter S. Thompson, and every one of you ignorant fucks who think that he was someone worth emulating in any way.

Hemingway and he have only two things in common, they both made a living writing and both turned out to liars and cowards and FRAUDS; which they PROVED when they BOTH ended up committing suicide.

It wasn't his writing as much as it was the story and fictional character that he played all of his life.

I like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". But it was the last one I could even stand.

He stands imo as a cautionary tale to us ALL about how a talent can be destroyed by a dissipated life.

I agree with that, it really made me really HATE and despise his COWARDICE for setting it up so that his son and wife would find him after he ate a .45 acp.