References to Starfighter reminded me of an old chum who had played a Stormtrooper in Star Wars. He wanted his ashes fired into space but his wife found out this was way too expensive. Instead she had his ashes shot up into the sky over St Ives Bay in three rockets. She said that using her kitchen scales to weigh out specified amounts of his ashes into containers to be sent to the firework company was a strange experience. Great "funeral" and no coffin required, cardboard or otherwise.