You can now scatter your ashes in space

Instead of scattering your loved one's ashes in the ocean or a lake, you can now send them to space.

A new company called Mesoloft is offering to send your relative's ashes 17 miles up in to the air, right to the edge of space, and then release them. The service will even film the event with two GoPro cameras for your family's keeping.

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The ashes will then be carried by the winds all over the world for several months.

"We know that the ashes will likely travel for months and possibly years as they get carried by the currents in the upper atmosphere," Mesoloft co-founder Chris Winfield told CNET. "The ashes will eventually descend and settle all around the globe. Moisture adheres to ashes that pass through clouds and the ash will form the nucleus of a raindrop or snowflake. I love the story, it's so poetic!"

Yes, that's right. The ashes will mix with rain and snow and eventaully pour back down on us.

But don't worry, Mesoloft claims scattering ashes in near space is a "completely sanitary process." The company's website states that in 1997, "the EPA determined that aerial ash scattering was safe and has no significant effect on the environment."

Services to send your loved one's ashes to space begin at $2,800.