In one of the more strange ventures to come out recently, a San Francisco-based startup called Elysium Space is offering to send your ashes out into orbit for just $1,990.

The premise is explained on the company’s website: “Elysium Space offers awe-inspiring memorial spaceflights to have a symbolic portion of a departed’s ashes launched into space. Our specially designed memorial spacecraft respectfully and peacefully orbits the Earth for several months. Family and friends follow this journey through the stars using our beautiful mobile app, which shows in real time the spacecraft location and how the world looks from this majestic place. Eventually, in a last poetic moment, the spacecraft harmlessly reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, blazing as a shooting star. Elysium Space is concerned by the space environment and does not create orbital pollution.”

These are the kind of people who think space is a unique and beautiful place,” CEO Thomas Civeit, a former software engineer at Nasa Ames, told TechCrunch.

Next year, the space company will be sending 100 capsules, each filled with ash, into Earth’s orbit.

According to the National Funeral Director’s Association, the average funeral costs upwards of $6,000, actually offsetting the cost of sending some ashes into space. Even more, Elysium Space is offering a cool twist on the funeral for the space-lover: loved one’s can track the progress of the capsule via an app.

According to Civeit, who is currently raising funds for the project, his long term goal is to be able to scatter ashes on the moon or send them out deep into orbit.

Some want their ashes launched into the sun,” he said.

A comparable space burial company called Celestis offers a similar package with a price point more than twice as high, at $5,000. However, it has a broader range of options; ashes can be sent into deep space and even returned back to Earth after the journey.

A writer at BBC questioned the point of sending ashes into space. “All the atoms in our bodies come from the stars and after our dying sun becomes a red giant and the Earth can no longer support life, we will once again end up as stardust. One day, our remains will be back in space. Why would you want them to get there any quicker?”