It's getting cheaper and cheaper to send your ashes into space.

Everyone is going to die someday and there are people who like to think about it and better plan for the future, be it preparing a funeral, choosing coffins or thinking of places where they would like to have their ashes thrown. If you want to be cremated, you can have your ashes hurled into space. First takeoff is scheduled for next year from Florida and the service costs $ 1, 990. Interested?

The company, founded by Thomas Civeit, a former NASA employee, is called the "Elysium Space" in honor of the mythological description of the state of eternal happiness. Services include collecting the ashes and delivering them to space, and the capsule that will house the material may have a printed message of up to 80 characters. Family members will be able to follow the launch of the capsule and will receive a video of the process along with a mission completion certificate.

The service

If the family wants, they can have a small portion of the ashes, which will be sent by the company in a custom box. One app will allow the family to track the ship's journey in real time - the ship will be traveling in orbit for a few months - or even years - and will return to our atmosphere as if it were a shooting star.

This type of service is not that recent, as a company named Houston Services Inc. has been doing business since 1997, and the first two people to have their ashes sent into space were Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series. and Timothy Leary, psychologist and LSD specialist. Prices for this company range from $ 4, 995 for ashes thrown into Earth's orbit and $ 12, 500 for those who want their ashes to be left on the moon. Houston Services Inc. plans to sell space travel tour packages next year.