From the Wool-sack

• Publication year: 1987
• Pages: 649

16 Colo.Law. 649 Colorado Lawyer 1987.

1987, April, Pg. 649. From the Wool-Sack

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Vol. 16, No. 4, Pg. 649

From the Wool-Sack

by Christopher R. Brauchli

Boulder---443-1118

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Martin Luther, The Great Catechism

We lawyers can only be described as pedestrian. Even when travelling by car. Consider what has happened to "jazz up" our profession of late.

Tax reform. And if you find that tame, tort reform. And if that bores you, assorted amendments to the Corporation Code. It is no wonder we are low in the public esteem. What we need is something that adds a bit of spice to our profession. Consider the newest addition to that age-old and somewhat dismal affair, the burial of the spent human being. What I am about to describe makes Hyatt Legal Services look like a holdover from the days of Dickens.

The improvement is being brought to us by The Celestis Group, a funeral home in Melbourne, Florida. It has organized a company called Space Services, Inc.

Do not be misled by the name. Although giving the impression that funeral or memorial services will be conducted in space, that is not what the incorporators have in mind. What they have in mind is much better. The company has received permission from NASA to launch an orbiting mausoleum from a NASA site at Wallops Island, Virginia.

The company plans to launch the first of three space tombs this year. The tombs will be launched by a rocket. The rocket has a cute name which links past with present. It is called the Conestoga-2. (The Conestoga-1 is probably the covered wagon by means of which our ancestors travelled to the west. Conestoga-2 is the means by which we can travel to the hereafter. It is considerably faster than its predecessor. It goes places Conestoga-1 and its passengers never dreamed of visiting.)

For the estate planner and probate lawyer, this can only be described as a boon. At last we have something even more satisfying for a decedent's family than a neatly wrapped, for tax purposes, estate plan. Imagine the thrill of standing with the decedent's family, dressed in black, on Wallops Island, as the powerful rockets launch into orbit the decedent whose estate we have so beautifully planned. No longer will we estate planners be considered to be the drones of our profession.

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