Snakum
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As some of you guys know, my father was diagnosed with liver cancer eight weeks ago, and the cancer has already spread throughout his entire body to his lungs, his bladder, and other major organs. Now his liver has failed completely (yesterday afternoon), so we (my family) won't have him with us much longer and we need to iron out some details pretty quickly, unfortunately .
Until 2002, he and my mother were driving his big travel-trailer to Juneau every year to manage a campground from April to September, and he has just absolutely fallen in love with the place and was heartbroken when they could no longer do this each year due to family obligations here in North Carolina. He was/is an avid fisherman with a small and medium-sized Captain's license (I'm not familiar with the actual titles of the certificates) and between boating, fishing, hiking, and counting bears in a friend's Super Cub he was in Heaven each year till the first cool weather came, which meant packing up to head back to NC. As much as he loved his home state, for him, I think Alaska had become 'home' over the years, and the trip back was merely 'returning to NC'.
So now that the end of his life is fast approaching, he and my mother having previously decided they both want to be cremated - which is odd for a Southern Baptist minister - he has hinted about the places he might like to be 'spread'. So, I was wondering if it might be possible to have a very small portion of his ashes spread via airplane, or even via boat, in Alaska? I'm assuming Dad will be considered "Hazardous Waste" (Being a life-long practical joker and a bit of a clown, he'll get a real kick out of THAT one when I tell him tonight ) and I'm sure I'm at risk for a heart attack when I find out the associated costs, but does anyone know if this is even possible, and how much it might cost to have a very small portion of Pop shipped to Alaska and spread anywhere within it's boundaries? Glacier Bay National Park was where he lived and worked, but I know he'd understand if he didn't make it there specifically, and he'd be happy just to be in Alaska once again, even if in a slightly modified form this time around.
Any ideas?
On behalf of my father, Reverend Joseph A. H. ... thanks for any info/assistance at all!
Minh Thong
Until 2002, he and my mother were driving his big travel-trailer to Juneau every year to manage a campground from April to September, and he has just absolutely fallen in love with the place and was heartbroken when they could no longer do this each year due to family obligations here in North Carolina. He was/is an avid fisherman with a small and medium-sized Captain's license (I'm not familiar with the actual titles of the certificates) and between boating, fishing, hiking, and counting bears in a friend's Super Cub he was in Heaven each year till the first cool weather came, which meant packing up to head back to NC. As much as he loved his home state, for him, I think Alaska had become 'home' over the years, and the trip back was merely 'returning to NC'.
So now that the end of his life is fast approaching, he and my mother having previously decided they both want to be cremated - which is odd for a Southern Baptist minister - he has hinted about the places he might like to be 'spread'. So, I was wondering if it might be possible to have a very small portion of his ashes spread via airplane, or even via boat, in Alaska? I'm assuming Dad will be considered "Hazardous Waste" (Being a life-long practical joker and a bit of a clown, he'll get a real kick out of THAT one when I tell him tonight ) and I'm sure I'm at risk for a heart attack when I find out the associated costs, but does anyone know if this is even possible, and how much it might cost to have a very small portion of Pop shipped to Alaska and spread anywhere within it's boundaries? Glacier Bay National Park was where he lived and worked, but I know he'd understand if he didn't make it there specifically, and he'd be happy just to be in Alaska once again, even if in a slightly modified form this time around.
Any ideas?
On behalf of my father, Reverend Joseph A. H. ... thanks for any info/assistance at all!
Minh Thong
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