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There’s plenty of things you could give someone a tax incentive for, but having your ashes disposed of in space? Virginia is considering it, reports PopSci:

Delegate Terry Kilgore is sponsoring a bill in the Virginia Legislature to provide tax incentives for people arranging to send their ashes into space. The bill would provide up to $8,000 in tax credits for booking passage aboard a commercial spaceflight, only if that spaceflight originates at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island. The flights could be for Earth or lunar orbit.

Specifically, the bill would provide up to $2,500 in income tax deductions per year, not to exceed $8,000 total, for commercial space launch services. It would take effect Jan. 1, 2013 and it’s only applicable to people residing in Virginia while still alive. It sunsets in 2021, and the goal is to foster private space industry growth at Wallops, according to Kilgore. Wallops (and Spaceport America in New Mexico) could see lots more action in the wake of the space shuttle’s retirement. The Virginia Legislature will debate the bill next year, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

If you don’t know anything about Wallops, we visited it in March.