Cremation’s biggest selling point has to be its versatility.
Sure, it’s better for the environment than burials and loads cheaper, but no other form of post-death care lets people give their families a cherished memento or shapeshift into their favorite things.
Maybe it’s a children’s toy or a line of cocaine cut with a father’s remains.
Ashes can end up in some pretty strange places.
Renato Bialetti, coffee pot entrepreneur
You might not know the name, but you’ve almost definitely seen the design.
Renato Bialetti helped popularize the eight-sided Moka pot his father invented in 1933 but which initially flopped.
Bialetti recently died at 93 years old, with a final wish that his ashes be buried in the same pot he helped revive.
Walter Morrison, Frisbee inventor
Why mourn your father’s death when you could just toss him around post-mortem?
When Walter Morrison died in 2010, his family cremated him and turned him into the very toy Morrison invented in 1955, then under the name Pluto Platter.
It would later become one of the most successful toys of all-time under the new name adopted by Wham-O: the Frisbee.
Fred Baur, Pringles can innovator
Fred Baur didn’t invent the Pringle, but he did have the ingenious idea to stack them.
Baur came up with the idea while working at Procter & Gamble in the 1960s. He was an organic chemist and food storage technician (awesome title), and he loved his insight into chip stacking so much that he requested his ashes be stored inside a Pringles can when it came time.
In 2008, when Baur died at the age of 89, his family split the remains between a traditional urn and the late inventor’s greatest creation.
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8 innovators who had their ashes turned into their obsessions
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