Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Space Burial Message-ID: <667@voder.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 14:55:02 EST Article-I.D.: voder.667 Posted: Fri Feb 8 14:55:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:37:15 EST References: <407@decwrl.UUCP> <779@ames.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 12 [buried at sea] > 150 miles North of SF Bay, there sits the remains of 20,000 individuals > who had paid for burial at sea and are now basically sitting in a > backyard. (Part of the Nepture Society.) The Neptune Society hired a pilot to dump the ashes; they intended that he do that, and it is reported that HE decided to do it the easy way. If they are culpable, it was not by intent but by failure to check/supervise. The above represents my memory of the newspaper reportage of the incident. -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino) The opinions expressed above are accidents.