Space: the final funeral frontier

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As a coda to a life best-known for playing Scotty on the
original Star Trek back in the 1960s, James Doohan, who died earlier this week
at 85, wants his ashes to be dispersed into space. According to this story in
USA Today
, he’s not the first of the original Trekkies to do so—series creator
Gene Roddenberry
had a similar request granted when he died. Since you’re
reading AdFreak, here’s our attempt at a marketing angle: there’s actually a
company called Space Services, Inc.,



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