WHAT was once the final frontier could become the final resting place for thousands of Scots thanks to a Glasgow entrepreneur who has launched Europe's first space burial service.
WHAT was once the final frontier could become the final resting place for thousands of Scots thanks to a Glasgow entrepreneur who has launched Europe's first space burial service.
WAY TO GO: People's ashes would be put in a satellite and fired into space.
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Tom Walkinshaw, 23, plans to put people's ashes in a satellite that will be fired into space. He believes the service will appeal to a range of customers.
The space-burial service is already offered in the US – where last year the ashes of Jimmy Doohan, who played engineer Scotty in Star Trek, were among hundreds sent into orbit – but Mr Walkinshaw's company, Alba Orbital, says it is the first to offer the service in Europe.
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