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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know?

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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hi, I'm welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast this Stuff you Should Know? And I'm Josh.

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Speaker 1: And there's Chuck Nice Chuck good one. Hi Josh, alright, Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. I understand here all right, Chuck. Um My.

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Speaker 1: One of my heroes, one of my idols of all time,

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Speaker 1: a guy named Dr Hunter Wis Thompson. I knew that's

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Speaker 1: where you're going. He actually stole one of my ideas

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Speaker 1: years and I'm not kidding years before. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you actually stole it, but years before, Hunter Thompson

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Speaker 1: had his ashes um shot out of a cannon at

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Speaker 1: Woody Creek, Colorado. Too much fanfare? Have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: the video of it? Now? I'm really dying to see

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Speaker 1: that documentary. It's awesome. That's really great. Um. I want

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Speaker 1: my body, not ashes body shot out of a cannon

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Speaker 1: like a year I figured human cannibaal yeah, exactly, but

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Speaker 1: a lifeless one that just kind of goes in over

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Speaker 1: on like a prairie or a plane in like Kansas.

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Speaker 1: I figure, all I need is a really good attorney

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Speaker 1: and it really corrupt sheriff and I can get it

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Speaker 1: done right. Well, what's the idea that you get shot

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Speaker 1: out and just land on the ground and then let

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Speaker 1: the carrion crows take care of me? That's nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a way to go. Um And you want to

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Speaker 1: hear some other ways again? Sure, okay. Apparently you can

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Speaker 1: do a lot with human cremaines, cremated remains. There's this

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Speaker 1: one company called life Jem and I actually think they're Swiss. Um.

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Speaker 1: They will take a certain measure of you think they're Swiss,

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Speaker 1: like they're not, like they claim to be German, but

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Speaker 1: actually I'm suspicious that they're not Swiss, maybe Jersey or something. Um.

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Speaker 1: They they will take a little portion of your loved

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Speaker 1: ones cremines and they compress it into a diamond. Actually wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's actually fairly a real diamond. Yeah, you can

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Speaker 1: do well. I mean it's a synthetic compressed diamond. Real

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Speaker 1: diamond takes eons. This is like I guess maybe Cubics

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Speaker 1: are coming something like that. As far as they say

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Speaker 1: it's a diamond, the um I for a point to

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Speaker 1: nine carrot diamond. UM it's on. You just send them

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Speaker 1: some of your loved ones remains. And it also actually

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Speaker 1: is equally effective, um to keep an enemy in prison

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Speaker 1: for eternity. If you want to do that, you just

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Speaker 1: have to get your hands on some of their ashes.

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Speaker 1: You can wear them around like you own them. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's that's another thing, totally totally well. You know what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen to you after you die, you better not

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Speaker 1: die before me. Um. You can also have your ashes

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Speaker 1: shot into space. Timothy Leary had it done, actually exactly

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Speaker 1: again one of my heroes. Slightly yeah, yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: slightly affordable, somewhat affordable, surprisingly affordable. How much um for

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Speaker 1: a I think a graham of your ashes to be

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Speaker 1: shot into space and then allowed to burn up in

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Speaker 1: in the atmosphere where you can sivably become part of

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Speaker 1: the carbon cycle or the rain cycle or something. It's

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Speaker 1: not bad. I wonder if they shoot you up there

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Speaker 1: that I'm sure they did with a bunch of other people.

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely. And there's a couple of different flights. One

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Speaker 1: it just goes up hit zero gravity and comes back

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Speaker 1: down and then they return it to you and you're like,

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Speaker 1: thanks a bunch that that would be appropriate for me,

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Speaker 1: because you know how much I hate to fly because

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Speaker 1: crowded and surrounded by a bunch of other people's creamines.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about You'll be trapped in

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Speaker 1: definitely don't want to the old Southern traditional burial view

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Speaker 1: bodies can actually be made to generate power after they die.

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Speaker 1: True in theory. Right. And this set up, this one

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Speaker 1: a conceptual art project called the Afterlife Project. But basically, um,

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Speaker 1: sorts of weird stuff with it. Normal stuff, but I

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Speaker 1: that's the afterlife project. So you can't you can't put

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Speaker 1: green burials, or depending on where you come from, green burials. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know. Uh. There was a study UM performed by

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Speaker 1: the I'm sorry with the American Association of Retired Persons

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Speaker 1: coolest one in my opinion. Are you talking about alkaline hydrolysis? Oh? Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: And there's also a burial at sea UM. The new

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