AUBURN, Maine — A Maine mother who is using social media to have her son’s ashes scattered all over the world has sent him on his greatest journey yet: to space.
Using her Facebook page, which has more than 17,000 likes, Hallie Twomey has mailed hundreds of packets of her son C.J.’s ashes to strangers worldwide so they can be scattered at the many places he wasn’t able to see before he died more than four years ago.
On Thursday, a rocket containing a vial of his ashes was launched into space from New Mexico. The rocket spent a few minutes in space before landing in the nearby White Sands Missile Range.
Twomey called it the perfect send off for her adrenaline-loving son, who was 20 years old when he shot himself. His ashes have been scattered in nearly all 50 states and in dozens of places overseas.
