24/2/2022 0 Comments Bean Puzzle TombstoneIn Rural Rushes Cemetery, one headstone stands out from the rest. Rather than the usual RIP, the Bean grave marker is etched with a crossword code. A message below the code urges, “Reader meet us in heaven.” Dr. Samuel Bean’s first wife, Henrietta, died just seven months after the two were married. His second wife, Susanna, also met her untimely end after only a few months of marital bliss. Bean buried his two loves side by side, erected the mysterious tombstone above them and didn’t tell a soul what it meant. He took that secret to his watery grave when he was lost overboard from a boat heading to Cuba. The epitaph drew curious visitors attempting to break the code to the little town of Wellesley over the following century. So many people came to make rubbings of the headstone that by the 1980s it was entirely illegible and had to be replaced with a replica. The cemetery groundskeeper claimed he had cracked it in the 1940s, but never revealed the answer. In the 1970s a 94-year-old woman solved the code and told what Dr. Bean had written for his two wives (if you would rather solve the code yourself, don't click read more.) Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bean-puzzle-tombstone
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For the first time in 53 years, the ABC show Play School has tackled the issue directly with a new episode about beginnings and endings. Presenter Emma Palmer wrote the episode and said it was a sensitive topic that experts felt needed to be properly addressed. In this very special episode, Play School is celebrating new life, and also reflecting on the love we have for those who are no longer with us and have died. There are times to play, laugh, sing and have fun, and there are also times to be sad and treasure our memories of people and pets we miss. Emma introduces us to a friend's newborn baby (and has some exciting news herself!) and Alex shares how he and his family remember his grandmother. Through stories and play, we explore ways to help children through what can be challenging times. It's time to talk about the beginnings and endings of life on Play School. Notes for families and educators The Notes for Families and Educators contain detailed information about themes explored in Beginnings and Endings (including information on how to support children in times of grief), details of all of the songs and books featured in the episode, and loads of additional resources to further explore the themes in the special. ![]()
The Play School team have identified key topics that are of concern to families living with pre-school children and collaborated with specialists within the early childhood sector to create one off Play School Specials. Beginnings and Endings has been crafted to help families explain the cycle of life and the concept of death in an age appropriate way. The Beginnings and Endings episode has been made in consultation with the National Centre for Childhood Grief, who worked with the Play School team throughout the development of the show. The centre recognised that there is currently very little available to help children experiencing grief and that introducing the subject in a gentle, safe environment, as this episode is doing, is a great way to help children start to understand life and death. Alex discusses the Beginnings and Endings special Emma discusses the Beginnings and Endings special You can watch the episode, Beginnings and Endings, on ABC iview.
SpaceX is gearing up for the third-ever launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket: the world's most powerful operational launch system. The mission, called Space Test Program-2 (STP-2), is slated to lift off between 11:30 p.m. ET on June 24 and 2:30 a.m. ET on June 25, weather permitting. When it does, the rocket will propel 24 satellites into orbit around Earth — as well as the ashes of 152 dead people. The launch of cremated remains is facilitated by a company called Celestis Memorial Spaceflights, which purchases available room on spacecraft, installs a container, then packs it with small metal capsules filled with ashes. It refers to these as " participants." But for these ashes to enter orbit as intended, SpaceX first has to pull off what Elon Musk, the rocket company's founder, has called "our most difficult launch ever." The variety and complexity of the two dozen satellites and their payloads is to blame: The various spacecraft have to be deployed into several different orbits using multiple engine burns, accordingto SpaceX. One of the satellites being launched holds NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock, which may change the way robots and astronauts navigate through space. Another has the Planetary Society's LightSail, an experiment that could change how vehicles propel themselves to a destination. The ash capsules are stowed on the same spacecraft as NASA's clock. How SpaceX is launching human ashes into orbitSpaceX has launched cremains into orbit before, but the company doesn't work directly with families to memorialize loved ones by flying their ashes into space. That responsibility on this mission goes to Celestis. Since its founding in 1994, the company has flown cremains on 15 different rockets: eight up-and-down suborbital flights, six into orbit around Earth, and one that crashed into the moon. Current and future "participants" include children, space enthusiasts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, authors, and more. For example, Celestis flew some ashes of geologist and planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker to the moon in 1998, and took the remains of "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" Doohan into orbit in 2008. (Doohan's ashes also launched to the International Space Station in 2012, and even more await a future " Enterprise" flight into deep space.) For SpaceX's STP-2 mission, Celestis bought spare room aboard the Orbital Test Bed satellite, which is also flying NASA's experimental atomic clock (among other payloads). The Celestis payload is flat metal sleeve. Technicians glued each of the 152 capsules inside the sleeve, then bolted it to the upper deck of the satellite. Not every capsule is the same size or weight: A family can choose to fly between 1 gram and 7 grams of ashes (between a US dollar bill and a US dollar coin's worth of mass). "The Gemini capsules house two individuals at 1 gram each. The Flight Module houses 7 grams of one individual," a spokesperson for the Smithsonian Channel, which is producing a documentary about Celestis called "Heavenly Bodies," told Business Insider. "Most people select to fly 1 gram in a single capsule." Many capsules have tombstone-like sayings etched into them. An inscription of one capsule flying aboard the upcoming STP-2 mission flight reads "Reach for the stars!" and another says "Space Truckin' Forever." The capsule of a now-deceased couple says: "THEY LIFT OFF TOGETHER!" Prices to send ashes into space start at just under $5,000 for orbital flights, according to Celestis' website, while deep-space and lunar flights begin at $12,500. If that doesn't strike you as an appealing end-of-life option, there are an increasing variety of alternatives to traditional burial and cremation. More and more US states are permitting preservative-free "green" burials, while others now allow body composting and even dissolving corpses with alkaline hydrolysis. Article originally by Dave Mosher appeared on Business Insider
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