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I’d be down for this if my current plans are still too expensive to be an option when I die.

I’d like to be flung out of a mass driver towards interstellar space, naked, in the “starfish position.”

Starfish position for the uninformed is arms out, legs out. You know, the position you take when you drop onto your bed exhausted at the end of a long day.

Except my final bed would be emptiness, forever cartwheeling into the abyss...

Until I hit an asteroid or something.



Your body won't survive the acceleration of a mass driver intact. Nor would it survive the rapid deceleration, if launched through an atmosphere.


This would obviously be done off the surface of the moon.

I would also accept being launched out of a trebuchet.

I won’t budge on the cartwheeling starfish. In case I pass by intelligent life in a few billion years I definelty want them to have a WTF moment.


I'm personally more fond of the "thinking man" pose myself.




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