Man with Terminal Cancer Seeks TARDIS Urn for His Ashes

i understand i have been looking for a urn in the shape of a doctor who dalek. i want it to talk (my recorded voice) when someone gets near it. I am having an artist friend create one if it looks good and you dont have one yet would you like him to make a ceramic urn for you

Many people don't have the ability to problem-solve like those of us who thought "cookie jar" or "mug/stein". Some think of it (piggy bank? USB hub?) but think that they don't seal well, or are the wrong size, or too impersonal to do the job. Many aren't crafty and/or have time to take a class to learn how to do it themselves or have resources to make something on their own. Sometimes there is someone who doesn't mind the challenge of making something for the sake of the challenge but need the spur of doing it for a reason that's better than "I did it" and "where am I going to put it?"

Give them a break. It's a good thought, a reasonable request, and if you don't have a productive suggestion then just don't post anything at all. They didn't ask for money - though we can assume they're hurting for it - just help with an urn.

Critical illness insurance? Don't make me laugh. That really is the biggest con in the insurance industry and that's saying something. Critical illness insurance comes as close to the Monty Python Neverpay policy as it's possible to get.

@zeppomarks -- ease back the rhetoric, please.

If this were an American show, I would worry more about lawsuits, but the BBC is a bit more classy. Sadly, my art leads more to drawing, but perhaps we could viralize this story and get the BBC's Quentin attention. They might make it happen.

No estel, giving people alternatives to going online and soliciting money from total strangers is apparently douchey.

I think if I were picking out an urn, I'd rather see one that was personalized. I would totally make one out of clay. I don't know if a commissioned artist would get in trouble, or would want to make something that's licensed and copyrighted.

Sucks to go through something like that, but it's an object lesson for those of us who don't have life or critical illness insurance.

Isn't there a tardis cookie jar in the neatoshop? They could use that if getting an urn is too expensive.

Needs more douche, ted.

Lots of people in the reddit thread suggested the Tardis Cookie Jar.

Personally, I'd rather have my ashes in the Pandorica than the Tardis.

Not sure why they need a fancy urn. People make Tardis-shaped everythings these days. Pay your other bills, get some plywood and some blue paint, and make your own tardis. Clay isn't that expensive. Take a course where you can build your own urn instead of an ashtray.