For $850, company will load love one's ashes into shotgun shells

[Liberal_in_LA]

Company will load loved ones' ashes into ammunition

Officers Thad Holmes and Clem Parnell have launched Holy Smoke LLC, a company that will, for a price, load cremated human ash into shotgun shells, and rifle and pistol cartridges.

It's the perfect life celebration for someone who loves the outdoors or shooting sports, Parnell says.

"This isn't a joke, it's a job that we take very seriously," he said. "This is a reverent business. We take the utmost care in what we do and show the greatest respect for the remains."

The company, launched in July, shipped out its first two orders on Sept. 16 — one from Florida and one from Kentucky — Holmes says.

It has established www.myholysmoke.com to promote the service and traffic on it has been growing , Holmes says.

For $850, one pound of ash will be loaded into 250 shotgun shells. The ash is mixed in the cups that hold the shot, not the powder.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-29/cremation-ashes-ammunition-guns-Holy-Smoke/50610712/1

[aquart]

1. So you can still kill after you're dead?

What a thoughtful gift.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Hell, I do it for $20. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Isn't this something the person can do themselves?

[Major Nikon]

5. If they had a reloading rig

Lee used to sell a complete reloading setup for $50. I'm sure they cost more today.

[TheWraith]

9. Not really, I got one online for $40. nt

[pinto]

4. Whatever.

:shrug:

[Mojambo]

6. "This is a reverent business..."

LOL.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Hell, I don't know but I figure for $850.00 I can probably load my own

as it were.

[madokie]

10. Dead man loading his own ashes in shells

this I gotta see
What would you do cut your part off and cremate it and load the ashes in the shells. Hell once you lost your part you might as well be dead :-)
keed'n

[MadHound]

8. Hey, it brings in the money, contributes to the employment numbers, capitalism at its finest

After all, isn't a large part of modern capitalism creating demand where none was before?

[saras]

11. Technically, this is free enterprise

You don't have to have capitalism to have these folks making money doing this.

[vets74]

12. I'm taking my ammo with me.

Jus' sayin'....

[jmowreader]

13. Any reloader in America will do it for the price of powder and primers

Ya gotta admit it is a unique idea, but it's overpriced by a factor of forty.