Stolen from a recent posting on rasfw. I seriously thought about putting this in the FenSpace board, b/c I'm sure SOMEBODY will use it eventually:
Quote:
Alastair Reynolds' short story "Galactic North", in the collection by
the same name, page 322. An ex-pirate is dying on a relativistic
starship:
"Keep my body aboard until we are almost touching light, and then
fire me ahead of the ship."
"Is that really what you want?"
"It's an old pirate tradition. Burial at C."