Remains In A Cache

January 6, 2006

My wife and I had a discussion last night about the appropriateness of having a sample of someones (mine) remains, in a small sealed container with a TB tag attached being placed in a cache to travel the world indefinately after my passing. I think it would be a fitting tribute whereas my wife just thinks it would wierd peopole out........discuss

38.2k · January 6, 2006

The search function isn't working, but I recall that its been done before. If I recall correctly most people were fine with it, but it gave some the creeps.

1.4k · January 6, 2006

I'd find it pretty creepy, but maybe I'm in the minority here.

January 6, 2006

I'd tote you around. Then again, I'm weird.

I want to be cremated and loaded into 12 gauge shotgun shells. Then give everybody at the funeral a box to take home with 'em.

My wife refuses to honor this request.

:rolleyes:

January 6, 2006

I'd be ok with it. I wouldn't do it myself though. The thought of being left in some newbies junk drawer for eternity just doesn't sound appealing to me.

January 6, 2006

I'd be happy to move you around as a TB. Just make sure the container is hermetically sealed and unbreakable. I wouldn't want you scattered throughout my caching bag.

I want my ashes taken aloft in a balloon and scattered over the crowd at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. There are 800 balloons and over 100,000 spectators per day there. I can just see everyone looking at the "dandruff" on their shoulders, brushing it off and asking, "what the he** is this?"

My brother is a fireworks operator and wants to be loaded in a shell and shot off during a July 4th show. I guess weird runs in our family. :rolleyes:

6.5k · January 6, 2006

Uncle Elwyn has been on the road for a couple of years. I know of at least one other example like this out there.

I've discussed the same with my wife, half serious/half jest. I porbably should decide it with her one of these days so she knows what to do? :rolleyes:

It would not creep me out to see this in a cache. A finger bone with the TB tag chained to it might though.

January 6, 2006

Go for it! Hope NOT to see you soon in a cache near us! :rolleyes:

January 6, 2006

I think it would be a great idea. You (well, not YOU) could seal it into one of the small stainless steel capsules and seal it with industrial strength epoxy, then attach a bug to it. Those who find it creepy, don't pass it along. Good luck.

January 6, 2006

I want to be cremated and loaded into 12 gauge shotgun shells. Then give everybody at the funeral a box to take home with 'em.

My wife refuses to honor this request.

I can load you up.

January 6, 2006

I'd tote you around. Then again, I'm weird.

I want to be cremated and loaded into 12 gauge shotgun shells. Then give everybody at the funeral a box to take home with 'em.

My wife refuses to honor this request.

:rolleyes:

January 6, 2006

Personally, it wouldn't weird me - I'd give you a lift. If you mentioned a particular type of area (mountaintops, lighthouses, whatever) that you particularly enjoy visiting as part of your TB's mission, I'd also try to work in a photo at an appropriate location along the way.

January 6, 2006

The concept of cremated remains traveling doesnt creep me out. The thought of ending up forgotten in a drawer does.

I have always joked that when I die I want to be cremated and small amounts of my ashes given to my friends to throw on the people I dont like. Talk about the ultimate last word!

Cant you see it... Phil says SEE YA!...FOOF...Whats this stuff?...Phil!

I dont think my wife would ever let it happen.

8k · January 6, 2006

Aren't there enough problems with caches in cemeteries? Now you want a cemetery in a cache! :rolleyes:

Edited January 6, 2006 by tozainamboku

January 6, 2006

Your ashes can be made into glass beads. Then it would be up to you and your surviving cache partner to decide whether or not to identify the guy in the glass. Anybody in your area who blows or sculpts glass can do this for you. They look great and nobody would ever know just from looking at them. I have a friend who plans to be converted into glass beads so friends and family members can cart her around or toss her in the sea as they wish.

January 6, 2006

My dad says he wants to do this, too... call it "Granddaddy's Ashes Cache!" LOL!

I'd definitely give you a lift & try to show you a good time while out caching with us, too! The only remains that creep me out are full-sized bodies with organs in their bellies & pumped full of poisonous embalming fluid :rolleyes: ...

Anywho... nope... not creepy for this team... but I hope we don't see you for a long time!

Happy Caching!

Lori V.

TeamVilla5

January 6, 2006

No problem with this idea at all..... If it's what you want then go for it. No one is obliged to pick up a TB. Like it or let it lie - how hard is that?

Personally, I wanna be cremated and scattered anywhere, by someone who will not tell anyone else where it happened. What does creep me out is a place becoming a pilgrimage point for family on down the line. I do not want to put the pressure on my kids of having to feel that they must make a regular visit to where I am left after the event. Being a (good?) memory is all I aim at in that regard.

1.8k · January 6, 2006

So, what happens when the cache you're in gets muggled? :rolleyes:

9.5k · January 6, 2006

Nobody said you wouldn't be subject to abuse. :rolleyes:

January 6, 2006

Uncle Elwyn has been on the road for a couple of years. I know of at least one other example like this out there.
I've discussed the same with my wife, half serious/half jest. I porbably should decide it with her one of these days so she knows what to do?

It would not creep me out to see this in a cache. A finger bone with the TB tag chained to it might though.

If you visit the Uncle Elwyn TB site, be sure to decode the dedication.

1.1k · January 6, 2006

Uncle Elwyn has been on the road for a couple of years. I know of at least one other example like this out there.
I've discussed the same with my wife, half serious/half jest. I porbably should decide it with her one of these days so she knows what to do?

It would not creep me out to see this in a cache. A finger bone with the TB tag chained to it might though.

If you visit the Uncle Elwyn TB site, be sure to decode the dedication.

Well I'll be darned - Uncle Elwyn was practically in my backyard just a couple years ago.

If this is what someone wants - fine. If you don't want to move the bugger along, then don't. When I lok back on it and think of all the places some of the swag I've seen and handled could have been, picking up a bug like this doesn't hardly register on my creepy meter at all.

January 6, 2006

When I worked at the US Post Office a woman's husband came through in a contact paper, (imitation wood) covered cardboard box. That gave me the creeps. Imagine ringing the doorbell to deliver that one.

-it

Edited January 6, 2006 by Iowa Tom

1.6k · January 7, 2006

True story:

A few years ago, someone tricked their loved one's ashes through the whole Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. They got caught on the IR security cameras. Ride stopped, closed for several days for cleanup. Perpetrators forced to pay $5,000 cleaning costs to Disney.

I guess a TB couldn't cause that kind of trouble, so why not? OK with me!

edit: spellnig

Edited January 7, 2006 by Klemmer & TeddyBearMama

1.1k · January 7, 2006

I'd move you along. I just wonder if there's any laws that would prohibit the transportation of human remains across state lines and such.

January 7, 2006

So what happens when someone decides to keep you?

3.8k · January 7, 2006

...a sample of someones (mine) remains, in a small sealed container with a TB tag attached being placed in a cache to travel the world indefinately after my passing...

Mm.... salty.

On-topic, I think it's kind of cool. Definitely cheapest way to travel. And my "issues" with traveling won't bother me much by that point, so I'd be up for it.

January 7, 2006

I'll tote you around, but when it comes to me i wan't my ashes seperated Eight ways, one part for every continent on earth and last one eight, to be placed in the familly columbarium

2.2k · January 7, 2006

a little creepy but i'd probably take you for a trip!!

i want to be buried with an oak sapling planet above me then place a cache at the base of the oak. that's a 900 year plus cache site!! who's going to maintain it though? family legacy. :unsure:

January 7, 2006

Slightly less "creepy" perhaps, you might consider having some of your DNA saved and placing that as a travelbug instead... There are a couple companies that make pendants and stuff with DNA in them...

January 7, 2006

True story:
A few years ago, someone tricked their loved one's ashes through the whole Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. They got caught on the IR security cameras. Ride stopped, closed for several days for cleanup. Perpetrators forced to pay $5,000 cleaning costs to Disney.

Some people are not too smart...

Shortly after 9/11, a light plane was observed dropping an 'object' over Safeco Field, said object burst open and scattered a 'powdery' substance across the outfield.

Hilarity ensued.

Turned out that a gentleman, who had been an M's fan, wanted his ashes scattered at the stadium. Denied permission to do so [1], the grieving idiots (I mean relatives) decided to 'dive-bomb' the stadium an drop his ashes.

[1] Here in Washington State, one may not scatter cremains on public lands, but may do so on private lands with the permission of the landowner.

1.3k · January 7, 2006

My dad says he wants to do this, too... call it "Granddaddy's Ashes Cache!" LOL!

Hope it's no time soon! :unsure:

But since your folks are right here in town, just drop me a line when and I'll be there to start the journey!!

Just don't put it in a cache near a red mud bank by a fire ant nest!! :blink:

(Local Joke!! )

D-man

January 7, 2006

:unsure: :blink: at gridlox!

Happy Cachin'!

Lori V.

TeamVilla5

January 7, 2006

Do you want a sealed thing of ashes to just travel the world, or do you want your ashes to travel somewhere to be dumped?

January 7, 2006

I wonder if there are any kids who've wanted their lost teeth to be made into travel bugs??? They might if their family is cache crazy...or their dad is cache crazy enough...maybe???

January 20, 2006

I'm certain there are rules about human remains travelling around (even as ashes!) but if you don't tell the authorities, I won't.

I told K that I wanted my headstone to be hollow so a cache could be hidden inside it... he thought I was a little bit nuts, yes. Oh, well!

c-s

3.2k · January 20, 2006

I'd tote you around. Then again, I'm weird.

I want to be cremated and loaded into 12 gauge shotgun shells. Then give everybody at the funeral a box to take home with 'em.

My wife refuses to honor this request.

Maybe if you had an affair she would help load the shells. :lol:

January 20, 2006

My wife and I had a discussion last night about the appropriateness of having a sample of someones (mine) remains, in a small sealed container with a TB tag attached being placed in a cache to travel the world indefinately after my passing. I think it would be a fitting tribute whereas my wife just thinks it would wierd peopole out........discuss

I don't understand what you're talking about ...

3k · January 20, 2006

I don't think it's weird, but then I still tote around one of the many micro-tiny containers of ashes that were passed out at my Grandmother's funeral. Hey, there's a thought, divy up your remains into a whole bunch of tiny urns that travel around forever :lol: :lol:

2.7k · January 20, 2006

An alternative would be to make up a TB with an ordinary object that fits your personality and have your survivor release it on your death.

1.1k · January 20, 2006

There was a "zip code" article in the back of the Dec 2005 Nat'l Geographic magazine about Grand Central Station. They talked about all of the strange objects that had turned up in the lost and found.

One item was an urn containing the ashes of a man. It was left on a train by his wife. He cheated on her for many years and used the excuse "I fell asleep on the train."

January 20, 2006

Coincidentally i just lost a finger in a shop accident. i've put it in a little plexi container of formaldehyde and sealed it and i am now waiting for my tags in the mail. You can look forward to seeing a little piece of me in circulation right soon!

8k · January 20, 2006

Coincidentally i just lost a finger in a shop accident. i've put it in a little plexi container of formaldehyde and sealed it and i am now waiting for my tags in the mail. You can look forward to seeing a little piece of me in circulation right soon!

Just so long as you don't put it in Wendy's chili. <_<

2.1k · January 20, 2006

My wife and I had a discussion last night about the appropriateness of having a sample of someones (mine) remains, in a small sealed container with a TB tag attached being placed in a cache to travel the world indefinately after my passing. I think it would be a fitting tribute whereas my wife just thinks it would wierd peopole out........discuss

Your wife knows best! You will get over this notion after you have visited 200 soggy, moldy, trashed out caches and find a more wet cigarettes, condoms, porn cards, unsolicited advertising and religious material, broken toys that were worthless in the first place. Is that where you want to spend your afterlife?

Kidding aside, it would seem to me that human ashes, physical pieces of a once living human, are a bit too precious to be handled by strangers. I would not care if mine are spread on the ground, in the water, or perhaps more beneficially in a compost container or in the landscaping somewhere. But handled by other humans, even my own family??? Fogettaboutit.

January 20, 2006

The Paul Forbis Travel Bug was one of the very first travelbugs I encountered.

It was a logbook with a pinch of ashes. Sadly, it vanished mid-2004.

January 20, 2006

I had the same conversation with my wife and of course, she refused to honor my request.

She did, however offer a compromise...

She said she would have a hole drilled in the side of my tombstone, just big enough to hold a Bison tube.

What a woman <_<

January 20, 2006

Coincidentally i just lost a finger in a shop accident. i've put it in a little plexi container of formaldehyde and sealed it and i am now waiting for my tags in the mail. You can look forward to seeing a little piece of me in circulation right soon!

Correct me if I'm wrong...but wouldn't this be considered a bio-hazard?

2.1k · January 20, 2006

Correct me if I'm wrong...but wouldn't this be considered a bio-hazard?

You are talking about the finger but as for the ashes: like when the bag developes a hole and the dust gets on your fingers and you are eating your subway sandwich. It would add some spice to that boring sandwhich.

Edited January 20, 2006 by Team Sagefox

1.5k · January 20, 2006

I'm certain there are rules about human remains travelling around (even as ashes!) but if you don't tell the authorities, I won't.

I told K that I wanted my headstone to be hollow so a cache could be hidden inside it... he thought I was a little bit nuts, yes. Oh, well!

c-s

Well, they can be mailed, so I don't see any problem in carrying them around from place to place.

From the USPS:

"462.2 Cremated Remains

Human ashes are permitted to be mailed provided they are packaged as

required in 463b. The identity of the contents should be marked on the

address side. Mailpieces must be sent registered mail with return receipt

service."

Definitely creepy, but I'd probably move you!

January 20, 2006

I'd have no problem moving you around!

Sometimes I like the company and just someone to talk to. <_<

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