I looked for a “space news” or similar in Industry Discussions but it doesn’t seem to exist, so I’ll just drop this here:
160 People Wanted to Be Buried in Space. Their Capsule Slammed Into the Ocean Instead
The [human remains], however, were on the capsule for a much more... wholesome reason: to memorialize loved ones. Celestis—a Texas-based tribute company—provided ashes from over 160 deceased individuals to make the trip into space (sadly, this is not the first time Celestis lost a payload, the first being in [2023] when a rocket carrying a late NASA astronaut’s ashes exploded over New Mexico).
This was a hitchhike aboard a SpaceX rocket except, oops, the payload didn’t eject and came back to earth and landed in the ocean. Oh well.