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Unfulfilled space funeral for “Scotty”: words from his son.
[ editor's note: actor james doohan was best known in life for his role as "scotty" on star trek. since his passing, it seems he has been most often spoken of in the context of a planned "space funeral" he requested in his devise. that yearn has not yet been fulfilled, despite repeated attempts. doohan's family provided a portion of his ashes to celestis, inc., a subdivision of the houston-based suite space services which offers "post-cremation commemorative spaceflights." this saturday, august 2, 2008, those remains were part of the payload exchange for a spacex rocket that didn't make it into round because of technical problems. there compel ought to been anterior attempts to send doohan posthumously to the stars, one of which ended with the eventual recovery of the rocket's payload, including those ashes. the remains of astronaut gordon cooper were also destined throughout this unchanged service. i understand that both cooper and doohan's surviving kin are receiving the memorial services as a premium, but the company has paying customers, too. space is tough. of all the unusual and technically-specific ways to memorialize a loved in unison (morph their ash into a man-made diamond; distribution it with concrete to pit a coral reef), ascending to cycle is unquestionably the most Byzantine, and the most vulnerable to technical unknowns. the benevolent remains, you could say, are just another payload. the odds in requital for getting any new kind of flair into space are hard. historically, there is much failure previous there is success. but families want honor and closure when a loved one passes on. a given of james doohan's seven children is a boing boing reader, and part of our extended community of friends and kindred happy mutants. i asked him if he would share his thoughts with us, and he very generously grateful. below, his words. -- xj ] for appetite of a transporter my father loved engineering. anything he could do to visit nasa, an aircraft carrier, a submarine, he’d do it. there was no reason to the enjoyment he received when people would come up to him and say, “i’m an engineer because of you.” so when a company in texas offered to initiate his remains into orbit, we could only accept. it’s been just over 3 years since my dad, james doohan, passed on. in that time, there have been many memorials, the most recent of which to commemorate linlithgow, scotland, as the time to come birthplace of scotty. but his launch into margin was the most publicized, and it was to be the most significant. there experience been many attempts to send my father on his modus vivendi = ‘lifestyle’. on saturday, the latest launch attempt by spacex, with a morsel of my father’s remains aboard, failed to achieve orbit. while there are many intricate reasons why this is a disappointment, mine is simple: i’d like to finish saying goodbye. every launch attempt is get pleasure from reliving his funeral. there’s a lot of pomp and ceremony, and a retelling of his deeds in life. but at the end of these funerals, something goes awry, the body doesn’t come buried, and you know you’re going to acquire to come back to do it over again. i’m not laying blame on anyone for the delays. it’s puzzling, living on the cusp of technology. where most of us lament the premature obsolescence of our apartment phones, there are those few of us who’ve pinned the memories of our family members on a rocket, hoping it ordain touch the sky. my dad believed in human ingenuity, and he believed in mankind’s destiny beyond the exosphere. that it would nab several attempts in these early stages to successfully achieve revolution would not oblige phased him. i can accept this, because of who he was, and because he knew it was all a part of progress. for those reasons, i know that his ardour will persevere, and others will keep those launch attempts coming. the act of sending a loved one’s remains into measure out settle upon someday be commonplace, even if we sire to book a berth flight ourselves to make it happen. that’s the kind of progress my father believed in. but i’m not unshakeable i can hang on until then. grieving can’t wait for the pace of progress, and i have to say goodbye now. so when news of the next discharge rolls there, please don’t ask me about it; i won’t be paying attention. if my found has anything to do with it, though, i’m trustworthy that ship will get where it’s accepted. — ehrich blackhound (image: courtesy of wende doohan and the doohan blood. thank you, ehrich.)…
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