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Final Exits: Ready, Aim, Rest in Peace “Everybody thinks that you get cremated, then you get left in a shoe box, spilled, swept up, spilled, swept up. But you have many choices!” So says Jay W. “Canuck” Knudsen Sr., owner of Canuck’s Sportsmans Memorials Inc., a Des Moines, Iowa, outfit that offers exciting funerary options–like sealing “cremains” inside fishing bobbers, bowling balls, and hand-carved duck decoys, and even mixing them with catfish “stink bait.” For the ultimate parting shot, the burly, blond 53-year-old Knudsen will load your ashes Since 1991, some 150 adventurers have gone out the Knudsen way. “He was a real reasonable person to deal with at a time like that,” recalls Corey Brown, 23, whose brother rests in a basketball on a walnut stand in his Des Moines living room. One client recently became one with a black bear, having paid Knudsen $7,000 to launch ashy 12-gauge volleys at a 400-pounder in When his own time comes, Knudsen plans to be scattered broadly during a five-stop shooting tour of North America. Asked if he might be better off in a nice, quiet urn, Knudsen snorts a little nonsensically: “Never. A sportsman wouldn’t even drink his coffee out of an urn.” |
Final Exits: Ready, Aim, Rest in Peace
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