Thad Holmes and Clem Parnell are Alabama conservation enforcement officers . . . and part-time human ballistic burial experts. Holmes and Parnell have founded Holy Smoke, LLC, a company that loads the ashes of your fried or loved one in shotgun shells, and rifle and pistol cartridges to be used in one last hunting trip or just target practice. For a small sum, it is resurrection and reload . . .
It appears that you do not need a special license once the body is cremated. You are not legally performing a funeral service. Nevertheless, they assure customers: “This is a reverent business. We take the utmost care in what we do and show the greatest respect for the remains.” A reverent business of stuffing your loved one into shotgun shells to use during duck season.
As explained on My Holy Smoke, this is a dream for many hunters: “How perfect to have my family and friends honor me by using shotgun shells with a little bit of my ash in each one. Whether my shells get shot at sporting clays or live birds or put on the shelf, even in death I could be ecologically sound and useful.” They will load 250 shotgun shells or 100 rifle rounds, or 250 pistol rounds for $850. They will return any extra ashes to you.
In the article below, Robert Chapin, a toxicologist, is quoted as saying people should be sure to kill the animal quickly if it is still living after being shot — to avoid the ashes spreading in the animal’s blood and the area around the shot should not be eaten.
They insist that you do not have to worry about eating an animal shot with the remains of your loved one. It is just carbon and any residue . . . well . . . this too shall pass.
Source: WTSP
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I wonder what the NRA’s position on this would be…
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Praise the Lord and pass Aunt Bessie!
This is one of those news items that solicits the response “Only in America” . . . just not in the good way.
If you don’t gain fame in your lifetime, you can now actually become a big shot when you’re dead.
I wonder where these two were and what they were doing when this idea came to them.
When this ripens, they may begin to put the ashes of “libruls” in those casings.
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/10/al-awlaki-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/“>Is Turley Next? …
oops … Is Turley Next?
What sayest thou Obama?
Dredd,
Oh my….That post is scary….my question is when they will come for you….
to each his own….
[my loved ones ashes go a wee bit at a time into the garden with each bulb that I plant....every lovely flower reminds me of them....]
Dredd1, October 3, 2011 at 11:11 am
When this ripens, they may
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Is war-time law written for ‘perpetual’ war?
Doesn’t ordering the killing of an American citizen without due-process amount to an incredible perversion of the law?
Is there any way to understand this as being ‘necessary’ and ‘appropriate’ or is this another martyr that drives a wedge between American justice and American citizen……?
Here is one way to go out in style. The great Hawaiian singer with the angelic tenor voice, Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole, died way too young and his ashes were spread according to his wishes. This is his Platinum selling hit, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole’s Platinum selling hit “Over the Rainbow” which also shows the disposition of his cremains.
Holy crap! Isn’t this the same company that was putting biblical messages on ammo for the military?
Great video of a fantastic song OS! I have heard him singing this song before, but I had never seen the video!
New funeral service turns bodies into bullets
You can also have your ashes made into fireworks!
Woosty’s Still a Cat.
Dredd,
Is war-time law written for ‘perpetual’ war?
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Let’s just hope “the law” is not declared a “muslin” religion, or we may loose our beloved professor.
AY,
Dredd,
Oh my….That post is scary …. my question is when they will come for you …
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I must look to the Borg series for the answer … and the answer is when the see me as a threat.
(remember when members of the Enterprise crew beamed over to the Borg ship and were mystified when Borg crew members went by them without even glancing at them? Data said “it is because they do not see us as a threat” …
So far I am not a threat … keep on blogging in the “free world”.
Dredd….Yep….
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Woosty’s still a Cat,
“… to each his own.”
My neighbor has his father and grandfather on a shelf in the garage. He claims they like it there. His wife has no idea what she’s going to do with them if he dies before she does. She has also made it quite clear that, should she go first, she does not want to join them on the shelf.
Bruce, in his nice new sash,
Died and was burned to ash;
Now, though I see a moose,
I can’t begin to shoot old Bruce.
Your “friends” at Holy Smokes LLC, that is….
now i remember why i moved out of alabama.
Blouise I know more than a few guys who would think that a lifetime in the garage w/thier wheels was heaven
The idea to get the latest laptop drivers work is normally using the xp laptop driver and some of the drivers from microsoft update.
Could I please have some eggs and toast with my SPAM?