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长眠于月球，只要12000刀

You might not make it to heaven in the afterlife, but you sure can go as far as the moon. Celestial funerals are now a possibility, thanks to San Francisco startup Elysium Space. For a ginormous fee of about $12,000, the company will privately transport your cremated remains to the moon!

在来生里，你不一定去得了天堂，但你现在却能到月球那么远的地方。有了旧金山的“极乐世界公司，“天葬服务现在已成为可能。花费12000美元，该公司便会单独将您火化后的遗物运送至月球。

Founded by former NASA engineer Thomas Civeit, Elysium boasts of bringing space and funeral experts together to provide the unique service. “Families now have the historic opportunity to commemorate their departed loved ones every night through the everlasting splendour and soft illumination of the Earth’s closest companion: the moon, they stated in a press release.

“极乐世界公司最初由美国航空航天局(NASA)前任工程师托马斯•西威特创立，该公司将宇宙专家和丧葬专家集合起来，定制提供这种特殊服务。“很多家庭现在就有这种历史性的珍贵机会，来纪念他们逝去的亲人，每晚向外看看月亮，这个离地球最近的伴侣，看看它永恒且柔和的光辉。他们在资讯发布会上强调道。

Although the company was founded in 2013, the service only offered in August of this year, after Elysium managed to seal a deal with space logistics company Astrobotic Technology. They’re currently taking orders, and the first batch of ashes will travel to the moon on Griffin Lander spacecraft – Astrobotic’s inaugural lunar mission – in 2017.