Instead, you can follow the lead of one of the first Americans to orbit the Earth, the late Gordon Cooper, and make a final voyage into space, by rocketing your ashes into the cosmos.
Mr Cooper, who was part of NASA's Project Mercury which sent the first Americans into space, will join those of "Star Trek" actor James Doohan on a Falcon One rocket launched from California in a yet to be determined date, according to Susan Schonfeld of Space Services.
"Gordon always would have taken another space flight had he the opportunity," his widow, Suzan Cooper, told AFP.
"This was the next best thing. He certainly wouldn't have said 'No'."
"Gordon firmly believed that after you die you can still observe what was most important to you in life," she added.
Mr Cooper died in his home in Ventura, California, in October 2004 at the age of 77.
Travel with love
Tributary messages left at the Internet website www.spacehero.net honouring Mr Cooper’s extensive career, will be digitized and sent into orbit with his ashes.
"Love ya man! The Merc Seven are the greatest heroes of all time," a message from Chip Blackburn of the state of Tennessee read on Monday.
"The stars are brighter because of you and the original seven and all that you risked for the exploration of space."
Messages from fans will also accompany the remains of Mr Doohan, who died in July of last year at the age of 85.
The Canadian-born actor played "Star Trek" engineer Scotty, who worked miracles on the Enterprise, a fictional starship used to explore "space, the final frontier" in television shows and films that won a devoted cult of fans.
The rocket is to deliver a satellite into orbit. Unique company Space Services arranged for the ashes of Mr Cooper, Mr Doohan and others to be packed into a rocket stage that will be jettisoned, then go into a decaying orbit around the Earth.
The stage will incinerate on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.