<div>Another alternative for a final "resting" place:</div>
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<strong>1996:</strong> Half of Garcia’s ashes are spread into the Ganges River in India, while the other half are poured into San Francisco Bay.<br>------------------------------------------</div>
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<br> </div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/10, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hansen</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span> </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings Visionaires –</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Over the years I have posted some rather . . . strange (for lack of a better term) . . . comments. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hear what you’re saying’. You’re probably thinking, “No! Not Tom Hansen. Not hard-charging thoughtful Tom ‘Brad Pitt’ Hansen!” Well, you would be wrong (but thanks for comparing me to Brad Pitt, anyway).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This one will make those pale in comparison.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A few months ago, Rodna (that’s my significant other) and I joined the Neptune Society. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instead of going into long, boring details explaining the Neptune Society to y’all, I’ll let you read about it for yourselves . . .</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The Neptune Society”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.neptunesociety.com/" target="_blank">http://www.neptunesociety.com/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The two things about the Neptune Society that appealed to me are:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) It’s a lot less expensive than a funeral and a casket (a one-time payment of just under $3,500 covers both of us – absolutely no more payments)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) Cremation and ashes seem a lot more appealing to me than slowly degenerating into worm dung.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well . . . enough with the preface to this posting.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since the Neptune Society cannot legally store the urns (a law that was passed back in 2007), you guessed it . . .</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The urns were delivered to us yesterday. Here is a photo of one of them.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/The_Urn.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Stuff/The_Urn.jpg</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And, just like any other product, this came with a short paragraph of instructions</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img height="491" alt="The_Urn_Label.jpg" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&view=att&th=12a96910c712bd8d&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=9dd2c28e73aded3f_0.0.1&zw" width="592" border="0"></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes. That’s right, V-peeps. No matter what kindnesses I share (or have shared), feelings I provoke (or have provoked), or relationships I take pleasure in (or have enjoyed) in the past 59 years along with the next 30 years (hey, I ain’t leavin’ any time soon) . . . after all is said and done, it’s the “plastic bag provided with the urn” for yours truly. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not only that, but I will be toting it with me until . . . well . . . you know.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, I have decided that if I am going to be responsible for maintaining the urn, its contents, and the “plastic bag provided with the urn”, I might as well give my final residence a name.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey, I told you this was going to be weird.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tom Hansen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Moscow, Idaho</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>“Death is just nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”</span></p>
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