{"id":7918,"date":"2010-09-01T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2010-09-01T20:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T00:46:25","slug":"ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7918","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RIV\"Here’s a unique way to deal with your mortal remains: Have your ashes pressed into vinyl records.<\/p>\n

For \u00a32000 UK company And Vinyly<\/a> will press small amounts of cremains (yours, a relative’s, or even a pet’s) into 30 vinyl records, along with up to 24 minutes of sounds of your choice. For an additional fee, they offer custom portrait sleeves, music composed specifically for you, and a range of other services.<\/p>\n

I’m having trouble coming to grips with whether this is a legitimate business or an elaborate prank in the Bonsai Kitten<\/a> mold. The Website is both extremely sparse and a bit amateurish, plus it includes a prominent link to Death to Vinyl, the record label belonging to And Vinyly’s founder. All mentions of the company elsewhere on the Web seem to be only a few days old–which smacks of a coordinated blitz of press releases–and there don’t seem to be any testimonials from anyone who’s used the service (presumably for a relative or pet). Taken together it all seems rather suspicious.*<\/p>\n

Anyway, if it’s legitimate it’s an extremely unique idea. What soundtrack would you include on a record containing your ashes?<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to pdq)<\/i><\/p>\n

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\n*In particular, the section of the Price Guide which mentions that you get the contract to sign after<\/em> forking over a \u00a3500 deposit gives me pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a unique way to deal with your mortal remains: Have your ashes pressed into vinyl records. For \u00a32000 UK company And Vinyly will press small amounts of cremains (yours, a relative’s, or even a pet’s) into 30 vinyl records, along with up to 24 minutes of sounds of your choice. For an additional fee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}