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Due to a power issue, it looks like the lander may now no longer have sufficient fuel to make a controlled landing on the moon. This was the lander that was set to carry human remains to the moon despite objections from the Navajo nation. Hopefully, this discourages any future attempts at such a stunt, since instead of a permanent mausoleum your ashes may instead be stranded in orbit or scattered amongst the moon dust if the thing crashes.

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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

They're for the benefit of the living, a method to process grief and pain.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

I think HST benefitted while living from the knowledge he would be shot out of a cannon. Some religious people can derive comfort from having a ready plot in hallowed ground.

So I guess still for the living, but that can include the living person to be disposed of somehow

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

yeah, this is why people choose their method of burial rather than us just choosing randomly after they die every time

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Bold of you to dictate how people are allowed to think about death

[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I don't think the dead are getting much out of it.

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

they are actually, up until they die

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

That doesn't mean we should be uncritical of such rituals, as though coping mechanisms themselves are fully unassailable. Whatever pathology results in someone thinking being smeared on the face of the moon is the best option can be soothed much more cheaply by means that don't involve actually smearing them on the face of the moon, such as therapy.

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I don’t feel comfortable responding, I feel like I’ll say more bad things

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

This is some really low teir bait

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