BELLEVILLE -- Six feet under? Try 2,500 feet over.

A southern Illinois pilot says he's designed a new way to let people who want to be cremated spread their ashes.

John Whitney Sr. of Belleville is offering to take the ashes up in his plane and spread them from a height of 2,500 feet above the place where the deceased chooses.

Whitney says the system he's designed makes sure that the ashes are pushed out into the wind and don't end up on the plane. Or inside of it.

Whitney says you don't have to be an aviation enthusiast to be interested in his service, but it's definitely a market he's targeting.