Out with a bang: Man’s ashes to be scattered in firework display

A Missouri funeral director is sending his father out with a bang, literally. Greenlawn Funeral Homes will hold its first Firework Memorial program on Saturday night, when fireworks packed with James Carver’s cremated remains will be launched skyward as part of his family’s goodbye. Carver’s family is the first to try Greenlawn’s new program. His son is funeral director Jim Carver, who says his father, who died in 2008, loved watching fireworks and would appreciate the unusual send off. The family will follow the eight-minute fireworks display with a cookout and memorial celebration. Greenlawn’s Fireworks Memorials range from a $300 “Sensational Celebration” to the “Ultimate Goodbye,” which costs $8,000 to $10,000, The Springfield News-Leader reported.

And it explodes with a lot of beauty and covers a lot of the sky, the size of a football field. It spreads the cremated remains into the sky and the particles are taken into the wind.

Aaron Mayfield, owner of AM Pyrotechnics, a fireworks manufacturing business

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