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Is This True Love Or What? [C&P]
roboman
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/16/ncart16.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/16/ixhome.html
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The widow of an expert on vintage shotguns had her husband's ashes loaded into cartridges and used by friends for the last shoot of the season.
Joanna Booth organised the shoot for 20 close friends on an estate in Aberdeenshire after asking a cartridge company to mix the ashes of her husband James with traditional shot.
A total of 275 12-bore cartridges were produced from the mix and were blessed by a minister before they were used to bag pheasants, partridges, ducks and a fox on Brucklay Estate.
Mrs Booth, of Streatham, south London, said it was a marvellous day out and her husband would have loved it. "It was not his dying wish, but I remembered that he had read somewhere that someone had had their ashes loaded into cartridges and he thought it was very funny.
"One of our friends, a woman who had never shot before, got four partridges with James's marked cartridges."
Mr Booth, an independent sporting and vintage gun specialist for Sotheby's in London, died two years ago, aged 50, after 18 months in a coma following severe food poisoning.
Julian McHardy, of the Caledonian Cartridge Company in Brechin, Angus, said it was the first request he had received to put ashes in shotgun cartridges. "He was loaded in our Caledonian Classic, a 28 gramme load, No 6 shot with degradable plastic wadding."
Before the first drive, the cartridges were blessed by the Rev Alistair Donald, the Church of Scotland minister from the nearby village of New Deer, who said he had no qualms. "It was a perfectly normal scattering of ashes, a few words and prayers. After all, he had a lifelong interest in ballistics."
The special cartridges accounted for 70 partridges, 23 pheasants, seven ducks and a fox on Jan 31.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
quote:
The widow of an expert on vintage shotguns had her husband's ashes loaded into cartridges and used by friends for the last shoot of the season.
Joanna Booth organised the shoot for 20 close friends on an estate in Aberdeenshire after asking a cartridge company to mix the ashes of her husband James with traditional shot.
A total of 275 12-bore cartridges were produced from the mix and were blessed by a minister before they were used to bag pheasants, partridges, ducks and a fox on Brucklay Estate.
Mrs Booth, of Streatham, south London, said it was a marvellous day out and her husband would have loved it. "It was not his dying wish, but I remembered that he had read somewhere that someone had had their ashes loaded into cartridges and he thought it was very funny.
"One of our friends, a woman who had never shot before, got four partridges with James's marked cartridges."
Mr Booth, an independent sporting and vintage gun specialist for Sotheby's in London, died two years ago, aged 50, after 18 months in a coma following severe food poisoning.
Julian McHardy, of the Caledonian Cartridge Company in Brechin, Angus, said it was the first request he had received to put ashes in shotgun cartridges. "He was loaded in our Caledonian Classic, a 28 gramme load, No 6 shot with degradable plastic wadding."
Before the first drive, the cartridges were blessed by the Rev Alistair Donald, the Church of Scotland minister from the nearby village of New Deer, who said he had no qualms. "It was a perfectly normal scattering of ashes, a few words and prayers. After all, he had a lifelong interest in ballistics."
The special cartridges accounted for 70 partridges, 23 pheasants, seven ducks and a fox on Jan 31.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
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Wasnt there some law just passed in this country making Human Ashes a Hazard material, Saw somewhere that scattering ashes at see had been banned.. Dont know for sure, guess its something I will research..
"It is hard to soar with Eagles when your surrounded by Turkeys"
"I dont care how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides"
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows.
Well...that's just wrong....Human ashes=Hazard Material.If this is true,somebody needs a good beating[:(!]I bet the casket companies and Funeral directors are behind it!![:p]I suppose burial at sea is totally out of the question huh??My opinion on this is.......A person should be able to be buried in a pine box(without being embalmed)and left to rot back into the earth if that's what they want.I mean hell,embalming fluid is highly toxic....but that's OK.ummm...
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